If You Go, Youâve Got to Go All the Way First, excuse me for saying âwoke,â which Gen Z is now calling a dead term, but it gets the point across, which is the point. Before Woke So before becoming more conscious, you might do and say random unfiltered s*** and not think twice about those actions or deeds (or even […]
What Goes Down, Sometimes Comes Up Higher In the grip of the pandemic, many of us looked to the heavens and cast a wish to do things differently if we should make it through this dark hour. Weâd say âyesâ more to people, to challenges, to artistic expression, to going for our dreams. Now, starting in America, as vaccines squelch the […]
But Beware: the Cat May Not Leave You Alone Growing up, my family had rambunctious cats who were free to roam and fully clawed, ready to fight other cats, a raccoon, or bring back a prized, dead mouse. As a young child, I didnât question it. Thatâs just how things were. Yet, theyâd come home after a wild night doing crazy […]
4 Tricks I Use to Stay Glowed Up We all probably heard the phrase that you can be your best friend or worst enemy. Well, hereâs some tricks for the inner friend. Blue Delight First, imagine whatever it is bothering or scaring you… Then, imagine it transforming to a blue puff of smoke and blowing away in the wind. Blue […]
Know This Or Risk Being âCheugyâ While procrastinating by reading an article about how not to procrastinate, I wondered if Gen Z would find that âmeta,â which means self-reflective, like the definition of the word definition. That got me thinking about how language evolves like fashion. Remember when people started saying âsickâ to mean cool, and before that âdope,â and before […]
Itâs Pretty Hard, But Very Rewarding Are you often in a hurry? Do you feel in a frenzy when thereâs a lot going on? Then maybe itâs time to try what I call, âThe Pause Challenge.â âWhatâs that?â you might ask. Before answering, I take a conscious breath and pause ⌠(Thatâs it!) Thatâs right, this challenge simply involves taking a […]
Something Did, But Who or What? Imagine your job is to guide airplanes up and down the runway at Chicagoâs OâHare Airport. Pretty exciting, considering around 2500 planes use the airport daily. But not as exciting as what you witnessed one afternoon. You look up and spot a large, gray disc hovering above one of the gates. You glance at your […]
A Metaphor For The Curious For many, Lent makes no sense. The 40 days of fasting, the self-denial, the giving up of stuff we love. âHow could anyone give up chocolate? or beer? or (fill in the blank)⌠Thatâs crazy!â are words some of my heathen friends say (just kidding about the heathen part, haha.) Aside from the self-discipline that fasting […]
You May Never Watch TV The Same Again⌠What if you could read a screenplay while watching the actual movie? What if I told you every TV out there can do something like this, for free? I discovered the full power of this vastly underused feature after years of playing the drums began to affect my hearing. Yeah, I probably should […]
The Real Deal Behind this misunderstood âWriting Ruleâ Hereâs a rule pounded into the sponge-like brains of writers: never end a sentence with a preposition! (theyâre yelling because theyâre a know-it-all). Donât you love it when know-it-alls are wrong? I do, âcause it gives hope to those of us who know we know little. Examples of preposition-ending sentences (from the Apple […]