Chronicling life. Husband-father-grandpa. I’m not as perfect as I write I am.
Every day you sit down to write. Familiar surroundings, sounds, timing, lighting. A drink by your keyboard. Your phone turned off or at least flipped over. Your fingers hover over the keyboard. Your mind ready to work. Everything is familiar….
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How do you know when you’ve become a writer? When have you earned this social badge? Is it when… Own a blog. Written several blog posts. Written a blog post on another venue. Keep a daily journal. Have an idea…
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On our way home from running a few errands, my wife and I stopped at Walmart to pick up a couple critical grocery items—like Oreos, you know, the critical stuff. Walking by the electronics section, there were two cable television…
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The endless pursuit of writing ideas sometimes turns into an overwhelming attempt to capture every tidbit of information that flows through your eyes and ears. The result can be sheer and utter madness! Life used to be so simple before…
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When you feel like creating things and the words come to you as images. I thought about describing the images, but instead decided to create some fun and inspiring wallpaper to remind you (and me) to keep on writing! And…
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The perfect read-time of Medium articles and how it affects my reading and writing. When you scan through articles on Medium, what helps you determine which articles to read? Do you look at the Title? Do you look at the Featured…
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Finding and following your community. The Numbers Game Not long ago I read an article by a fairly prominent writer on Medium speaking to those that were interested in gaining more followers on this venue. His method seemed legit in actually…
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– Me, to Evernote. I’m having trouble being totally loyal to my applications. I’m always looking for the next-latest-greatest-whiz-bang-cure-the-world-of-all-its-problems application. And guess what? I still haven’t found it yet. Yet. Why can’t I just be content with the apps that…
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