Mary’s Pad

This is one of my favorite poems of all time, and I have had reason to revisit it and to think on it often at various points on my life, and I find myself revisiting it again.
If
If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can […]

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“A person who is nice to you, but rude to the waiter, is not a nice person.”
I was just reading Dean’s blog, and came across his post on Pearls of Wisdom for 2008. He has listed 25 things to think about in 2008, some of them pretty funny, and I was chuckling along until […]

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If this was my last chance to make a blog post, my last chance to say what I wanted to, my very last time to have an audience with anyone, what would I say?
I want to believe that this is NOT my very last blog post, but if it is, then I want […]

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If you are anything like me, you constantly try to multi task. The advent of Windows was, for me, the beginning of my descent into multi tasking. And I use the word “descent” very deliberately. DOS was a wonderful program in a lot of ways. You could do one, and only one […]

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While hanging out on the web the other day I found a very interesting blog post in what has quickly become one of my favorite places to visit. The post is about angry people and the negative effects that they have on you and your brain. It’s titled “Angry/negative people can be bad […]

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