Buffering

Buffering

If you grew up in the early computer era of the 90’s or 2000’s, you are all too familiar with the problems that came along with early home computers. The biggest aggravation – for me, personally – with these computers was if you clicked one too many times...
Freedom

Freedom

Ask anyone what they want out of life and a great number of them will reply with something along the lines of, “I just want to be free.” They will say this like it is the most difficult thing to achieve. In reality, it’s rather simple to achieve such a thing. The...
I Need to Make a Change

I Need to Make a Change

For years, I told myself that I needed to make changes in my life. I needed to be healthier, more physically fit and more mentally aware. In the end, like the New Year’s resolutions that are put out into the universe annually, I made no changes. I continued to operate...
If I had to do it all over again…

If I had to do it all over again…

Let’s face it, we’ve all verbalized that phrase, at some point in our lives. It’s usually followed by some enlightened realization of our past mistakes or incorrect decisions. Something we know now that we absolutely didn’t know then. The words that follow that phrase...
I Am The Spark…

I Am The Spark…

I have this mantra I say to myself, every morning: I am the spark, one of many, that will ignite thousands of fires and light up the world.  This serves a dual purpose for me. For one, it serves to remind me that what I do is for others first. Any benefit I...
Bandit’s Midnight Run…

Bandit’s Midnight Run…

So, no lie, there I was: Standing atop a fence post, on the shores of an alligator infested lake, at zero dark stupid, waiting for an overzealous dog to return to his owner (who left me there in case the dog came back while he moved our camping gear across the lake)...