Grant Me The Courage…To Step Away From My Computer!

Is Social Media addictive? I’m beginning to think so. I mean, it’s not THAT bad…. yet. It’s not like I can’t walk away from the keyboard any time I choose. Hmmm, wait a minute. I wonder if I really can?

Walk away that is. Like if I really had something important to do, I’m sure I could push the keyboard aside and take care of whatever it is I need to get done first, then resume whatever I was doing prior to the interruption. Did I just say interruption? That almost makes it sound like my regular life is getting in the way of my life on the Internet.

Is it possible to have two separate lives, one online and one off? Come to think of it, that already sounds weird to think about even having an online life. Well, maybe not that weird. I mean, basically everything that you need to do these days can be done on the computer. From Banking to paying bills, buying shoes to books, food to furniture, it’s just about all online now. In fact, there’s pretty much nothing you can’t do on the computer these days.

Tags: Blogging, Facebook, Life, MySpace, Social Media Addiction, Twitter, Writing, YouTube

Someday May Never Come….Better To Be Happy NOW

Happiness. That oh so elusive thing that we all search for. Endlessly scowering the earth for that fix, a way of transforming our lives into our dreams, come true. It can take months, weeks, years, an entire lifetime and still there are no guarantees we’ll ever find it.

Happiness can and does mean something entirely different for each and every one of us. Luckily there are numerous opportunities for us to fulfill our dreams, to find our true happiness.

Tags: Attitude, Blogging, Dreams, Goals, Happiness, True Love, Writing

FOCUS! Focus! Focu…. Hey, Did You See THAT?

Focus. Such a simple word. Heck it’s only five letters, how tough can it be? Apparently extremely difficult, for me anyway. I seem to be surrounded by so many distractions these days, each of them prying me away from all of my intended tasks.

Tags: Blogging, Focus, Goals, Lists, Noise, Shorter Blog Posts, Writing

How DO You Stop A Brainstorm?

OK, so I never know when to shut up. No idea when enough is enough. Too many thoughts, so little mind. Ooops, I mean so little space. I’m well aware that my Blog Posts are extremely long, thank you. And yes, some might even consider them to be too long.

But here’s my dilemma. How am I supposed to be able to stifle a thought, an idea? How do you stop in the middle of a tumultuous tale? How can you even begin to put a limit on genius?

Tags: Attitude, Blogging, Cooking, Goals, Short story, Shorter Blog Posts, Writing

Absolutely ‘AMY’zing!

Did you happen to catch the final round of the Masters Tournament last Sunday? If not, you really missed something special. Similar to the Superbowl, where lots of ‘non~footballers’ around the world tune in on that Super Sunday, I’d have to imagine that there are plenty of ‘non~golfers’ that tune in to watch The Masters each year as well.

Largely considered the ‘Holy Grail’ of golf, Augusta National Golf Club is known worldwide as one of, if not THE most beautiful golf course in the world. Every square inch of its glorious greeness manicured to perfection. It’s as if they individually trim every single blade of grass to its appropriate height and then comb them all to ensure they are facing the correct direction.

Tags: Attitude, Blogging, Dreams, Goals, Golf, Life, The Masters, Writing

Burger Rage ~ THE LAW OF STARVATION!

Honest, I did my best. I really tried my darndest to resist temptation. Although I know all the reasons, too many calories, too much grease, any way you choose to look at it, just not healthy for me. Yet, here I was, caught in it’s greasy grip, the mile long line up at the In ‘N’ Out Burger Drive Thru, anxiously awaiting placement of my order.

Tags: Attitude, Blogging, Disneyland, In 'N' Out Burger, Life, Writing

Deep Down I’m Still A ToysRus Kid!

Grow Up? Who, Me?? Not likely. At least not anytime soon. Sorry to say but growing up is right up there with getting old and neither one are in my immediate future. At least not if I can help it anyway.

Recently I was over at a buddy of mines house, a friend I haven’t seen in about three years. We were hangin’ out, BS’n about BS. You know, the usual. Inside the garage sat his recently purchased Harley Davidson, a bike he had wanted for quite some time. Needless to say I was super happy for him.

Tags: Woodies

I Just Wanna Cash In On My Passion

Is that so wrong? Too much to ask? It’s the age old battle, I would assume pretty much since the beginning of time. How can I spend my days (or nights) doing what I love, following my passions as opposed to spending an entire lifetime following the rest of the sheep, herded along the freeways, taking the safe road to nowhere and needless to say not too happy about it?

After all, isn’t working at what you enjoy more or less like not working at all? Wouldn’t you much rather spend your days with a big smile on your face as opposed to a permanent frown? I know I would, that’s for sure.

Tags: Art, Blogging, Dreams, Goals, Indiana Jones, Life, Nonfiction, Painting, Recession, Short story, Stephen King, Writing

The Low Road to Soberville…

I gotta admit, I expected more. A LOT more. After four very long years without beers, I truly thought my life would have done a complete 180 degree U~Turn and I’d be on the Golden Road to happiness. Or at the very least, standing at the gate, waiting for somebody to unlock it so I could start heading down that beautiful road. But alas, no such luck. For all I know, the gate’s still locked because I sure as hell can’t see it from here.

Now keep in mind this hasn’t been four years of ‘total’ sobriety as I was still doing a bit of ’self medicating’ until Aug. 2nd of ‘06 but I haven’t had any alcohol as of March 6th, ‘06 so it’s been four years without beers. Shouldn’t that count for something? Isn’t there some kind of a reward for good behavior? Apparently not. At least not one that I can see anyway.

Tags: Addiction, Alcoholism, Dreams, Goals, Life, Writing

XMAS SUCKS! There…. I Said It!

Yep, that’s what I said. Christmas really does suck. Not sure if I’m the only one that feels this way or just the only one with enough guts to say it out loud. And I really can’t say when it all changed but it’s just about the most miserable time of the year for me. Matter of fact, this time of the year has sucked for so long that I can barely remember far enough back to when it didn’t suck.

Strange though, how some of the greatest memories I have are memories of Xmas’ past, yet now I literally dread this time of the year. I can still recall relentlessly shaking every box under the tree, doing my best to figure out just exactly what Santa brought me.




Always hoping for a rattle, clunk or a knock of some sort. At the very least a bit of “weight”, insuring a cool toy. But I can still remember the pain and disappointment of the “quiet” boxes which signalled the impending let down of socks or a sweater. And needless to say I always checked the boxes that were addressed to my sister. Surely I couldn’t have her getting more “rattlers” than I was, right? Right!





When did it all change? When did it take such a horrible turn for the worse? I don’t think it was upon discovering the fact that my parents had been lying to me this entire time. That Santa really didn’t exist and that he was just some made up fantasy. Some commercially driven “Guru” conjured up to guilt people into buying more “stuff”. No, that couldn’t have been it. I was too young to understand any of that and besides, I didn’t see any kind of a drop in my “under the tree box count” once Santa was out of the picture. There had to be more to it.

Tags: Attitude, Blogging, Christmas, Dreams, Goals, Life, Writing