Obsessed with Conformity

Get Back To Where You Once Belonged

2011-10-22T00:14:10-04:00

Pablo Picasso once said, "Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist." Children. What a pain in the ass. They know nothing of the pressures of being grown up. They just come and go as they please, experiencing the world through tiny pink glasses that don't concern them with paying bills, voting for leaders or negotiating business deals. They're lucky. And they know it. Or, at least my kids do....

A Routine Day

2010-11-16T19:46:28-05:00

It was a perfect late afternoon in early summer. Hope Baker was tending to a bed of yellow roses in the front of her house. In a few moments, her husband would be home and she had a special dinner planned - complete with fresh cut flowers. Their daughter Michelle was on her way to Arizona for a job interview, and so they had the house all to themselves for the weekend. Starting with a...

Problem Solving and Thinking Inside the Box

2010-11-10T11:09:20-05:00

When you get up, you’re sleepy. You shower. Problem solved. You’re naked. You select clothes. Problem solved. You’re hungry. You eat. Problem solved. And so on. But if when the alarm goes off and you keep hitting the snooze button, or if you wear yesterday’s clothes, or you forget to eat - you’ve still got problems. But not you - you’re responsible. You’re a problem solver. Congratulations. As a problem solver, you don’t even realize...

How Have I Never Seen This Before?

2010-11-09T11:00:29-05:00

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Never Underestimate Serendipity

2010-11-03T01:01:58-04:00

Earlier today I asked Twitter for topic suggestions so I could write a random post tonight. I've been working a lot lately and just don't carve out the time necessary to do what I do best – have conversations in my mind while I type. So I asked. And I received some pretty solid ideas. Surprisingly, there were even a few people who mistook me for a social media expert and wanted me to talk...

A Dream Starring Me and Sir @RichardBranson

2010-11-01T18:26:43-04:00

Originally posted 8 November 2009 as 'I Dreamed a Dream' I had this dream the other night that Sir Richard Branson (@richardbranson) DM'd me to invite me to contact him off line. I did. He asked whether I'd be interested in participating in a bit of crowdsourcing. It seemed that Virgin America was prepared to launch a new North American advertising campaign and were in the process of querying various concept artists to find the...

Ode to Gregor

2010-10-24T17:51:30-04:00

A couple weeks back, a cockroach made its way past the invisible chemical barrier around the outside of our house, and into the hallway. This is what happened.

On Bullying

2010-10-22T21:57:01-04:00

Bullying may never cease to exist as long as humans run this joint. After all, men desire power. Our only saving grace may be to remember that, as humans, we do have the capacity to change.

A Contradiction

2010-10-20T12:26:42-04:00

Download now or listen on posterous contradictions.m4a (2094 KB) Anyone who has ever gotten close to me has left. Except my wife. I suspect one day my daughters will leave, too. It won’t be their fault. They’ll still love me. But they won’t be able to deal with me at close range. I used to wonder about why this is, but after a lifetime of failed relationships and trying to change myself to fit into...

A Modest Proposal

2010-10-13T17:50:46-04:00

I wasn’t happy when they took God out of our schools, but somehow we let that pass. We cannot, however, afford to let the unnatural act of homosexual marriage take root here.

I Need a Mentor

2010-10-12T17:11:54-04:00

I need a mentor. I need to find someone who believes in my talent as a writer to help me get over the hump.

Warm October afternoon air - thick with the fragrance of tumbling drier sheets

2010-10-09T16:42:44-04:00

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Pack Mentality

2010-10-09T00:34:40-04:00

So here we are back in puppyhood again. It will be as fun as it is challenging. But thanks to genetics, we feel like we know what we're getting into.

Because One Day I'll Forget

2010-10-05T23:05:59-04:00

So here I am back at the pediatric dentist, or as i like to call it - the scene of the great laughing gas incident of 2010. Since there are no teeth being extracted this time, both girls were at ease in the drive over after school. After filling out the green form letting the dentist know that we haven’t tried to do any dental work on our own, the girls disappeared into the abyss...

Nissan, "Baby"

2010-10-03T22:13:25-04:00

Great commercial.