Category: Blog
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Happy 311 Day!
Today is March 11th… or better known to me and many others like me as 311 day. 311 is a rock-reggae fusion band out of Omaha, Nebraska, with several hits that brought them temporarily into the mainstream. They’ve been rockin’ for over 30 years and have been one of my favorite bands since having been…
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Shorter; Pithier
Is pithier even a word? According to the evidence I have, yes, although in my eyes as I write the word, and in my brain as I hear it, the word sounds wrong. Like it shouldn’t exist. Yet here I am writing it, using its meaning. Like with my “Free Fiction Friday” stories, where I…
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Ever The Student
A simple way to approach much of life is to do so with the mindset of being a student. This means forgoing that pesky preconceived notion of knowing something. Instead, it means viewing everything as something that can be learned from. People, events, observations… all present themselves as opportunities to expand knowledge. If we shy…
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Reading First
Well, not exactly first… Routine has been on my mind a lot lately. The goal is to build a daily routine that reinforces habits that are worthwhile, while discouraging the mindsets that allow for distraction and anti-habits. Anti-habits are really my being all-Mr.-Fancypants in how I am describing something. They really are simply bad habits…
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Thoughts On (Blog) Writing
On the heels of my post, “The Practice”, it has come time to admit that like normal, my desire to keep up with things on this site has started to wane. Writing itself isn’t the problem. What it comes from is the energy used to think about what I want to write about and post…
Jeremy C Kester 