MAYBE THERE WILL always be some little thing we don’t like about the work we love. I have my own “damned dailies” as Dr. Phil calls them. But it’s not coming up with ideas for content that I find most challenging. It’s the tedium involved in bringing those ideas to fruition on the web page….
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WAITING PATIENTLY ON MY BOOKSHELF for the occasional trip down my father’s Memory Lane is a 65-year old copy of The American Thesaurus of Slang. I think the book is out of print by now, but in its day it must have been the essential reference manual for detectives, sailors, and other niche inhabitants whose…
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PERHAPS I JUST need to be watch my diet. Admittedly, as a content creator, I end up ingesting mass quantities of social media every day. But lately my stomach has been churning over what I’ll call fast-food content. I think it’s adding up to too many empty calories for all of us, in an already…
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SUPPOSEDLY, CONFESSION IS good for the soul, right? So, yes, I confess that I’m a social media idiot. Social media, like the human beings that make it thrive, is a lively, ever-changing, almost organic kinda thing. And I’m willing to admit that, even as one who works in this medium every day, I’m constantly learning new things. For…
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CHRISTMAS EVE is tonight, and if, like me, you’re no longer eight, you may soon be ruminating on the paradoxes, contradictions, and ironies of the Season. For those of us in the West, there may be no greater philosophical clash than between the frantic celebration of abundance that Christmas has become and its impoverished beginnings; between…
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GOOGLE IMAGE SEARCH includes a tool I find fascinating, because instead of requiring you to describe in words what you want to see, it allows you to provide an image you’d like Google to match. But it also says a lot about why we’ll always need people to ride herd on technology. I’ll elaborate on that below,…
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IT’S STILL DARK THIS MORNING, hours ’til I’ll be able to see if the large tree laying a few feet outside our window did serious damage on its way down. We heard it fall around 4:30 and, not hitting the house, with only a rustling of leaves that belied its true weight. Dallas is clad…
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DID YOU EVER wonder how much our creative “offspring,” those ideas, innovations, or enterprises we personally give birth to, reflect or reveal who we are as individuals? That question occurred to me just a few minutes ago when I came across a story I wrote years back, stream-of-consciousness style, scribbling it atop the collage at…
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OKAY, THIS IS GOING TO SOUND WEIRD. Self-aggrandizing perhaps. Or self-serving. Maybe all three. I hate it that it might sound that way. But honest, that’s not at all what I’m trying to do here. Instead it’s a revelation that I want to share, one I had just this morning, triggered by a comment on…
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“I WENT THROUGH some very tough years after that and have just found my love for music and life again…I don’t remember much of those years or my life..” Just hours ago, I read those words in an email from a musician acquaintance I hadn’t talked to in almost ten years. He was in part…
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