Being off of Facebook for a month has allowed me to gain a more healthy perspective on the social media juggernaut, and it has forced me to reconsider the true purpose of the social media platform. One of the great challenges with Facebook, and many of the portals we are …
When I left to write The Rucksack Letters, my friend Jay Burleson gave me a book of poetry by James Kavanaugh entitled There Are Men Too Gentle To Live Among Wolves. This is one of the poems that really spoke to me as I set out to live the rest …
I went to GoodReads.com to look up an author and remembered that I was one of them. However, when I looked at my Dashboard, there were four of the eight books that sounded really cool, but, unfortunately, I didn’t write. This kind of thing has happened before where books I didn’t …
Although I’ve not always been consistent in doing so, I’ve often said that my motto is to “write the world”. In thinking about the premise of that, I am inclined to think first that it is about writing the world the way you would have it to be. Write your …
“Dear Jack…” That was how the first several installments of The Rucksack Letters initially began, much to the confusion of the emailed recipients. I was inspired to write my journey by the writings and legacy of Jack Kerouac, and in many ways I started writing these letters as an unauthorized …
I love Facebook. I can spend hours just scrolling through all of the things that my friends post, sometimes liking them and sometimes commenting, but mostly scrolling. Unfortunately, it doesn’t seem that it’s time very well spent, and although I help others develop their social media strategies, Facebook hasn’t done …
I had the honor of playing my version of Pink’s song “What About Us?” at the March For Our Lives in Sarasota on Saturday. You should be able to click on the link if you’d like to see it. While I was waiting to play, I was taking in the …
I’ve not always been good at social media. There are times I’ve been quite active on it, but it hasn’t all been good activity. A lot of it has been unproductive because I’ve just wanted to putz around, and some of it has been unproductive because I’ve gotten caught up …
Last week, I was watching one of the videos of the students from Parkland speaking out about gun reform, and I was struck with a thought. Several months ago, I caught Pink’s performance of her song “What About Us?” on Saturday Night Live, and I was immediately inspired to learn …
More and more, people are considering the possibility of a Universal Basic Income, a stipend received by all adult citizens which insures they can pay for their basic needs. Thomas Paine was one of the first to propose the idea, followed by the likes of Martin Luther King, Richard M. …
