Category: Ideas

  • Your Soul on a Blog

    Your Soul on a Blog

    Today, I heard someone say that whenever you write a blog post, you put your soul on a blog. It’s not a new thing – souls interacting with each other.  It can happen in the ether.  It can happen while reading a book.  It can happen when people meet face…

  • Random Opponent

    Random Opponent

    I have recently started playing Words with Friends.  It’s great for unproductivity.  I have too many games going. Well, I had the app open, and I somehow “created” a game with a Random Opponent.  I didn’t necessarily want to resign the game.  It started so then I played the game.…

  • I Shipped

    I Shipped

    I shipped. If you have no idea what that means, you have to check out Seth Godin’s post on shipping. The basic idea is to complete a task and do something. Whether you are creating, drawing, writing, or shaping, you will always deal with the resistence. No matter how passionate…

  • I Have Strong Opinions

    I Have Strong Opinions

    That’s what someone told me this afternoon. It was followed with an opportunity to write an article for a publication. I was then flattered to get an opportunity to write. I am just amazed at the opportunities that are available. I have a handful or writing projects and they keep…

  • Data and Action

    Data drives decisons. That’s what we academicians say. But data doesn’t necessarily drive us to action. You can have all the data you want, but it is the emotion that moves you to action. You can have all the research that tells you that there are problems or pollution or…

  • The Language that Connects Community

    The Language that Connects Community

    Yesterday, I attended TEDxAFC (I’m still processing my experience and I’ll probably blog about it soon). One of the over arching themes of the event had to do with how we can build community.  There was this theme of how language connects us in community, but what stood out to me…

  • A Udea

    A Udea

    I have an iPhone 4. This post is not about that, but is inspired by it. I am still getting familiar with the touch screen. I have fat thumbs and often misspell words because of it. This morning, I kept typing “udea” instead of “idea.” I was looking at it…

  • Age and Identity

    Age and Identity

    Today is my birthday – for another 31 minutes anyway. I have tweeted and updated about bacon all day.  I don’t know why.  I was craving it last night, and I had some today.  I could have some right now.  Don’t really know why I did that, but bacon it…

  • Categories

    Categories

    If you spend any time with you, you will inevitably hear me talk about “categories,” and how we process through our categories. We all have categories in our minds where we store information. They are file folders in our minds. You learn new things by creating new or rearranging existing…

  • Picky Eater = Trust Issues

    Picky Eater = Trust Issues

    This is a new idea for me.  I didn’t know this, and technically, I still want to do more research about this. I was talking with a friend this morning, and they were explaining to me that someone that’s a picky eater might have some trust issues.  As I understand…

  • A Wedding in the Family

    A Wedding in the Family

    I officiated a wedding yesterday.  Is that what you call it when you are the Officiant at the wedding?  I don’t know how many I’ve done but this one was fun. First of all – it was family. Second of all – it was family. There was so much family…

  • What Would Life be like Without TV

    What Would Life be like Without TV

    TV is such an interesting thing. We are an over-media’d society. If you think about it, there are a few cultures that still dont have tv. I have family in the Philippines that don’t have tv or even a flushing toilet or running water. But what would it look like…