Category: miscellaneous
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Buffers
In my quest to be a little more mindful / present I’ve been doing a lot of thinking and reading. One of the things I’ve been thinking about on and off for the past few months are buffers – things that separate us from something else. The obvious ones (i.e. the buffer between you and…
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Its never the intended consequences that get you
I’m not sure if this is national news, but here in the northern Kentucky area there is a boom of sorts going on. A heroin boom. There are all sorts of public interest groups, task forces and proposed legislation to deal with the problem, but not many seem to be asking the simple question: where is…
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Book list for my daughter – round 2
I posted a few weeks ago an initial draft of a ten book reading list that I am going to ask my 14 year old daughter to read through before she turns 16 / gets a car. The goal is to add a few ideas to her mental tool box, specifically things she is not…
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You don't always get what you pay for
Warning: this is probably going to be a screed. I may misstate some facts. I may not tell the whole story. I may forget some things I should mention. But I a stuck in Vegas and its either blog or punch someone. The last thing I want to do is spend a night in a…
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Friends
I did something that some are perceiving as a rather drastic action yesterday and today: I unfriended on Facebook and unfollowed on Twitter everyone that I currently work with. I “lost” about 75 “friends” on Facebook and have about 100 fewer contributors to my twitter feed. No one did anything to upset me, I’m not…
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Hello my name is Chris and I am a marketer
As I have feely admitted in many posts, I write about a lot of things as I am figuring them out or that some would say I know nothing about. I write here to capture ideas as I have them, to argue with myself and to force myself to compose my ideas into something…
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Help me put together a reading list for my High Schooler
Quick post today – just not a lot of time for exposition, but I do have a question I want to get some feedback on. I am trying to assemble a “top 10” book list for my eldest, who just started High School this past August. The idea is simply to expand beyond what she’s…
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WJPT?
After work today I will be heading down to my church to help out with our annual stewardship campaign. For those of you not up to speed on church lingo, stewardship is the label we use to describe our annual call for pledges. You see, the church I belong to is a charity (as are…
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Dinner is served.
There still seems to be a lot of confusion about what happened the other day on capital hill. The shutdown had been going on for a few weeks based the inability for the house and senate to agree on a budget just as soon as that was running at a full boil, talk a the…