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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…
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Billy Joel
Recently, maybe in 2019, I got to see Billy Joel perform live, and It was a great show! He’s still one of my heroes. The reason that I’m writing this post today is that I just stumbled upon a YouTube video of Billy Joel listing his five favorite Billy Joel songs for Stephen Colbert. For…
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Social Media
We live in a world where some things change quickly while other things change more slowly. Technology tends to change more quickly than our social constructs. Social media provides a good example of this. In his book Supercommunicators, Charles Duhigg points out that we’ve only been communicating online since the early 1980’s. It’s no wonder…
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Identity
It’s possible that I could write an entire book on this topic. While in college, I took a class called Modernity and Identity. I thought about the topic before this. Afterward, I thought about it even more. One of my favorite songs from the musical Les Miserables is “Who Am I?” While singing this song,…
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Invisible Work
Most of the work we do is invisible. My wife, a very talented actress, is currently preparing for a one-woman show. Nobody is going to see the hours and hours and hours of memorization work and creative effort she’s doing to prepare for the upcoming performances. It’s invisible. Authors usually don’t just write the words…
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My Money Rules
Being financially healthy makes a huge difference in our lives. Like most people, we’ve gone through times of almost unbearable financial hardship. We’ve also done a lot of things right when it comes to improving our financial health. Here are a few of the Money Rules that I’ve adopted.
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Resonance
Certain ideas resonate with me. Others do not. I greatly admire the individuals who have done work to ensure that nobody goes hungry in our world. It’s a cause that I believe in with my whole heart. However, the idea of feeding the hungry doesn’t resonate with me. It’s never going to be my life’s…