Category: Life

Lifestyle, People, Family, Relationships, Parenting, and Introspection according to how life be lifing.

  • Uncle Rick

    I want to see my family and my first home under better circumstances. I would’ve liked to. I’m going to Hartford, CT with my grandmother to bury her son. The son she and my grandfather outlived. My mother’s little brother. The uncle who was only 13 years older than me but still a father figure…

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  • I was a long day preparing documents for the Voc Rehab Program. The literature on the program reads like it’s extremely promising. But the process of getting approved feels like preparing for family court. ..hmm I really thought I’d have something positive today. Well, I kinda do. A friend called me today about some work…

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  • My attorney and I have been pushing forward as much as we can with settling a drawn out divorce. I’m having a pretty serious financial hardship following retirement. Here’s the situation with my divorce. We negotiated over the summer of 2018 and got a document ready to sign on our 27 Sep 2018. When I…

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  • I got to talk about Candid Dad today with my dad – specifically about the intent, message, and people it will help. I got to layout the reasons it’s going to be a huge factor in how children view parenting. We talked about the what and that the how will take care of itself. I…

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  • I lost my Uncle Rick on Saturday. My mother’s little brother. My cousin Luverne called to tell me he passed that morning found by one of his nurses. My Granma called shortly after. Aunt Pat, Uncle Sam, now Uncle Rick – I don’t want to miss out on the chance to hug anyone else. I…

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  • Someone jacked my quarters from inside the CRV. Photo: How I found the car. Pretty damn bold of them. My car is about 12 paces from my bedroom window on the first floor. They left the Oakley’s tho – literally pulled them out of the ceiling compartment and left them on the driver’s seat. Which…

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  • A creative career path after the military is hard. I press forward with my ideas for two reasons: future me full of questions and the two children watching my life.

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  • I made a lot of headway on Voices.com today. No, I haven’t booked a gig yet, but I talked with my account manager today. For 45 minutes, we walked through every section of my profile and demos to optimize the details. In the end, I had info on demo creating and labeling, best descriptors of…

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  • Today was an action-packed day. And by action-packed, I mean information-packed. I sat in on two weekly live video chats with course instructors for two different courses I’m enrolled. Each Thursday, Pat Flynn hosts a Zoom call for his students and Brad Hussey hosts a Youtube Live call for his students. On this particular day,…

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  • Podcasting Blogger is the news right now. It’s about 40% of what I think about working on right now. I’m a little tripped up with where to start. But I know that I want to get out information on how to began recording. That’s probably the most important thing to anyone who doesn’t already have…

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  • I appreciated holidays when I had a full-time, government job. But now I appreciate when everyone else is at work, so I can get things done. I’m completely aware that this post makes me sound like a terrible person. Understood. Loud and clear. You will not get an argument from me. I am a selfish…

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  • I played a lot of Words with Friends today. Definitely dodging being constructive. A cool Netflix documentary about the failed Fyre Festival. I was completely glued to it. There was something spectacular about watching something so big fail so much. I think part of the appeal was watching the created of it be delusional. That…

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