It’s just like they say, “if at first you don’t succeed…”What the hell were you expecting?! ‘One and done’ isn’t a practical approach to getting anything meaningful accomplished. Point of fact, the term diligence indicates persistence.  First drafts aren’t final drafts. One attempt, resulting in failure, does not…should not…indicate an overall waste of time.  For crying out […]

In sports, if you win 3 titles in the span of four years, you are a more than a dynasty…you are a legend.  But when you lose four championships in a row …it’s called a curse.  When you’re not winning, you can name all the greats, the idols, the role models…that never got the title. You

The only difference between a struggling artist and a court jester…is that the jester has an audience. Life always seems to get in the way of goals.It’s hard to strive for hopes, when you’re struggling to make ends meet. Most people can probably identify with that.It’s not always financial, a lot of it is just time.

In sports, if you’re found to have used performance enhancing drugs, or steroids, your achievements are null and void. Then you’re banned from further competition. If it’s found out after the accolades and laurels, they are stripped from you and your name has an *asterisk placed next to it in the record books. It’s cheating.

f enough people break the rules… The rules are diluted into change.  It can be both good and bad.  It is why film is in a death spiral.  Publishing is a dumpster fire.  And art is celebrating mimicry.  The natural effect of everyone chasing the new hot thing is that it becomes a pool of

When you pick your visionary battle…Do you survey the landscape first for your hill to die on? Does it have a good view for you, or are you looking for a place for your corps to be seen? I only ask, because we’ve all got blinders on.All of us. If we are out there hoping

Starving artists are romanticized.The phrase, “if you do something you love, you’ll never work a day in your life,” is used to ‘advise’ graduates or those teetering on the cusp of life change. Have you experienced life?About the time you think you have anything figured out, the rug gets pulled out from under you.It’s going

We all live in a consumer economy.We buy, we sell…we fall victim to chronic wasting disease?I guess a word CAN mean two different things. Gluttony and tuberculosis…what a joy.But in the end, it all rounds out the same way… with an obituary and a tombstone. There probably aren’t that many obituaries that use their space

The story of the Pied Piper of Hamelin is not a happy one.If anything, it’s a cautionary tale illuminating the miracle that lemmings aren’t extinct. Anyone that says, “follow my lead,” should be questioned.Especially if they haven’t done anything except get elected to a job title. True leadership is trailblazing.It isn’t someone saying, “follow in

We’ve all heard the phrase, “fake it, ’til you make it.”The base idea of that being that if you act like you know what you’re doing, other people will believe that you know what you are doing…and eventually you’ll figure out…what it is exactly that you should be doing…and being paid for. How often have