This month Ben and I are having our 8th wedding anniversary. As of May 1st we will have been together for a DECADE. I think we are particularly well matched for each other (obviously!!). And I feel like I won…
Category: PhilosophyFriday
What do you want to do when you grow up?
I always felt like a weirdo growing up because I didn’t know what I wanted to do for a career. My friend’s knew they wanted to be nurses, teachers, lawyers, engineers, dentists, etc… and all of my fiends who had…
Best Friends
I don’t have just one best friend. I consider the term “best friend” to signify a tier, not a single person. I haven’t had just one best friend since… possibly my whole life. I can remember in grade school I…
Big Goals and How to Achieve Them
One of the things I have learned in the last few years that has helped to keep my mindset right is the following: I can’t always control exactly what/when/how the final result I want is going to happen, but I…
Being Creative is a Skill
Being creative isn’t some magical gift given from the heavens. Creativity is mostly practice over time and gaining skills through that practice. Artists aren’t born being able to paint anything they want. They spend hours and hours painting. They have pieces that they…
What Am I Supposed To Post About?
I have discovered something about social media. Writing about what you hate does a few things: It gives that thing power by drawing attention to it. Attention is power and will always augment the thing that the attention is being drawn…
Positivity is Pragmatic
My life has improved every time I assume that those around me are well meaning and good people. This isn’t to say that people are always good. There are criminals and there are antisocial people. But the far majority of…
Philosophy Friday – If You Leave Me a Nasty Comment
Someone read some of my blog posts and decided to try to tell me off. They left me one nice comment and then one mean comment that they copy/pasted onto every blog post I have written. I guess I touched a nerve…
Weapons of Mass Instruction, By John Taylor Gatto
This book is absolutely 5 star. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Gatto goes over the history of compulsory schooling and how it is specifically designed and intended to crush out of people their creativity, independence, and ability to judge for themselves. This may seem unbelievable. …
Who Cares If Your Stuff Sucks?
I have wanted to start a blog since I was 18. That was 14 years ago. At the time when I originally was looking into beginning a blog at 18 I was told that blogging for income was “sort of…