A Letter to My Facebook Family and Friends

Dear FB Family and Friends, I know it seems a bit odd that I’m writing this to you in a blog post vs the standard usage of a FB status update. But I knew this would be a bit too lengthy for FB, so the blog is a much better forum. Now onto the point of this post… God knows I really try to stay the heck away from politics in my posts, but I have to say it, because right about now, I’ve really had it “up to here.”…

Dealing with the Blockade…

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Or “writer’s block” as it’s called. First, for those of you who have been following my blog since I first published it last Fall (2014), I am sorry I haven’t written anything in a while. Writer’s block is the bane of any writer’s existence, and as anyone who writes for a living might tell you, when it hits, it can really make you feel useless. In fact, I’ve had it so bad recently, I briefly flirted with the idea of updating my résumé for a possible return to a workforce…

Winning Isn’t Everything

Happy Monday! So, we’ve all heard the phrase that is the title of this post a thousand times or more: “Winning isn’t everything;” and in most of those cases, it seems it’s the guy who lost that utters those words.  Well, I won’t hold you in suspense by making you think the opposite is the case here.  I am not a winner who somehow quickly grew bored of a recent victory.  No. This post is by and about a guy who endured a humiliating tournament defeat this past weekend in…