Barrel Through Life

What are the things you most long to do, but you just haven’t done them? What’s stopping you from doing them? MONEY: I imagine most people will say they don’t have enough money to do the things they really want to do. That’s probably true for all of us. We all have dreams that would require more money than we have. TIME: Some people will say time is preventing them from doing what... read more

Shift and Bend With The Swirling Winds Of Change

Change. It’s inevitable and it’s scary and it’s happening to us continually. Sometimes change trickles through our lives almost imperceptibly. Other times, change slams into us with the force of a Cat 5 hurricane force wind. A few people thrive on change, embracing it with a fervor of passion. Many balk at change, digging heels into the ground, hoping to resist for as long as possible.... read more

Becoming You

The following was written several years ago by someone else, yet the words are a mirror of my own voice, as they reflect my own thoughts and feelings exactly. I’ve communicated these ideas in various ways to numerous people over the years. I’ve had to repeat them to myself on occasion. Someone else has written these ideas down, in pretty much the exact same way I imagine I would have written... read more

Business As Usual?

This is a personal post. Over the last several months, there have been natural disasters and world conflicts almost constantly, it seems. Earthquakes, floods, tsunamis, revolutions, and more have become a bigger part of our lives than usual. Because we all spend so much time on the web, we’ve formed bonds with people across the world – more so than at any other time in history, I’d... read more

Water – What We Can Do To Bring It To Everyone

Let’s start with a few numbers: 1. 3.6 Million people die every year because they lack clean drinking water. 2. 4,000 children under the age of 5 die EVERY DAY from preventable, water-borne diseases. 3. 1 Billion people don’t have access to clean, safe water. That’s 1 in 8 of us. 4. $25 can supply a person with water – for life. If you’re like me, you live in a place where... read more

Funny Tweets About Google Instant

Reactions about Google’s new Google Instant search technology has been swift. I grabbed some screenshots of some of the funny tweets I noticed in the first hour or so since Google Instant first became available to everyone today. Here they are. Enjoy.... read more

12 Important Things I Learned (or Re-learned) Recently

1. Sometimes people will disappoint you; sometimes people will pleasantly surprise you. 2. Sometimes I’ll feel hurt because others are unfairly judged. 3. Sometimes people need to be reminded that the worth of a voice is not dependent upon the amount of money available to spend on that voice. 4. Sometimes I’m reminded that you wouldn’t know me at all; you would never have heard my name;... read more

Oh Stop Being Such A FussyPants

Stop Being Such a FussyPants I don’t really know what a fussypants might be, but in my mind, you could substitute “stick in the mud”, “fuddy duddy”, or just “all work and no play” if that helps define what I mean. Sometimes, even on a serious blog, you can lighten up and have a little fun. Life, even our business lives, allows for some serious smiles and even the... read more

[RANT] Useless Journalistic Tactic of Partial Obscurity Protects No One

Look, journalists / bloggers / reporters / rumormongers, if you’re going to share some breaking news via an undisclosed source, don’t bother to obscure the source’s name while still giving tons of clues that makes it easy to figure out who that person is. Engadget, I’m talking specifically to you at the moment. In this breaking news story yesterday, you so kindly obscured the... read more

Seven Odd and Interesting Things About DazzlinDonna

Kalena tagged me for this “7 odd and interesting things about me” meme, and although I’ve already participated in a similar meme 3 years ago, I decided to go ahead and do it again. It actually might be harder this time around, because it means I have to find 7 things beyond the 5 I’ve already listed in that post long ago. 1. I had epilepsy when I was a kid. From the ages of... read more