Tag: life lessons
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Borrowed Time
Given the events of the last week, expect a few more posts of life and what it means to be alive. It’s the way I will be coping. As from my prior post, my father fell deathly ill while my family and I were visiting them in Philly. This extended what was supposed to be…
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Dealing With Doubt
Again? Really? You may have noticed that I’ve posted every day this week at least one time. Yes, I am trying the daily blogging thing once again. Over the last year I was at best posting once a week. Once I had tried this blogging every day thing but it hadn’t gone over that well.…
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On Failing
We all fail. It seems too often to be a criteria of life in general. We make plans; we break plans. We wish to make plans; we fail to even start. We try to write the next great American sci-fi saga, we fail. Or at least I failed (so far). Life is a series of…
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Being Proactive
Day 1 Lately I have been reading far more non-fiction and self-help books than I would ever have thought in the past. My reading lists used to be exclusively fiction. Occasion one might have seen me with something other than a story, but those were often the exceptions rather than the rule. Not so much…
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Curse You, Hugh Howey!
It can be seen as a standard interview question: who do you picture when you think about what success looks like? For me, one of the people that pop into my mind first is Hugh Howey. For those who haven’t already googled Hugh, here’s a quick byte on who he is: Hugh is the bestselling…