Category Archives: Miscellany

Behold!

Behold! Behold what, exactly? At the moment, my written thoughts on the word “behold”. Not that my writings are so profound that they are something to truly “behold” in the strictest sense. But that is exactly my point. The vast majority of our lives fail to live up to the uses of the word “behold”. …

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Too Fond of “It”?

“It is well that war is so terrible. Otherwise we would grow too fond of it.”  That quotation is attributed to Confederate General Robert E. Lee. He is said to have made the statement in response to his observation of the battle of Fredericksburg during the Civil War. (Brief history lesson; the Union got its …

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Twitter Reboot

I don’t fail at Twitter like I fail at message boards. (See my last post.) I have however recently concluded that I need to overhaul my Twitter experience a bit. Let me say right up front that I am simply never going to be able to do with Twitter what a lot of “success coaches” …

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Why Do I Fail at Message Boards?

I fail at message boards. My password notebooks over the years have been filled with the sign-in information for dozens of them. Sports, introversion, writing, acting you name it. I have joined and perused message boards on just about all of my interests. (Even a few things in which I had only a passing interest.) …

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Update This.

Updates, whether to information, hardware, software or procedures or important, I suppose. Especially when an overall improvement is made. But I’m the type of person that will trade some degree of efficiency for familiarity. I’m not a Luddite. I use technology. I’m not in most aspects conservative. I tend to be open to new ideas, …

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