Author: admin
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Fingernails and Toenails
Imperfections make life beautiful. Yesterday, I lifted a large box without being quite careful enough. One of my fingernails got torn. It wasn’t a big deal. This morning, the torn nail got caught in some fabric and ripped apart a bit more. So, I grabbed a fingernail clipper and clipped the nail as close to…
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Visiting Venice
I like that we can tell stories about some of our best and worst experiences. It’s a way to share something about who we are. I remember the time I got to visit Venice. I met up with a couple of young women who were also visiting Venice for a day or two. Although we…
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Priorities
I think it’s natural for our priorities to change over time. This means that we may be changing our direction when others don’t expect us to change. That’s OK. That’s part of what it means to be human. It’s important to continually ask ourselves what’s important. External events happen. Do any of these events require…
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My LinkedIn Articles
Between 2014 and 2017, I wrote a series of articles on the LinkedIn platform. Here are the direct links to those articles. I spent a bit more time writing these than I typically spend writing a blog post, so I would like to think that the quality is a bit higher (for the most part).…
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Writing Software
Humans have not been writing software for very long. We’ve been writing algorithms and mathematical procedures for over two thousand years, but this isn’t quite the same thing as using a modern computer programming language to solve problems. The Fortran language was developed starting in 1954. The C language was developed in the 1970’s, and…
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Free Play
There are many trends in our society that I find disturbing. I am horrified by the rise of authoritarianism in the United States. I am also very concerned by the extent to which ideological differences seem to be preventing real conversations between people. I’m sure that I’m going to be writing more about each of…
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My First Song
This morning, for some unknown reason, I thought about a song that I had composed when I was about twenty years old. I’ll share it in a separate post. Then, I realized that this was not the first song that I had composed. When I was a kid in grade school, I wrote a Theme…
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Say a Prayer for the Living
After the events of 9/11/2001, I wanted to do something creative that might be helpful to others. I wrote a song called Say a Prayer for the Living. Karilyn and I got a group of people together to create a music video that also gave people a chance to share their thoughts and feelings. I’m…
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Why Write Blog Posts?
The main reason I continue to write these blog posts is because I see it as a good way to practice writing. The act of expressing your ideas on the page is not something that comes easily to most people. We have to practice to get better at it. While I did complete some useful…