Author: Me

  • Leaving the Mountain, to Reach New Heights

    Leaving the Mountain, to Reach New Heights

    My last blog post was six years ago and I just reread it this morning. Sometimes when you look back on old writing you can’t help but cringe a little at what your younger self wrote. In this case though, seeking a better balance between creating and consuming still resonated with me and was a…

  • Consumption Versus Creation: The Ongoing Battle

    Consume Less, Create More A couple months ago I was asked to do an interview for the Why Is That Important podcast to discuss Therapeutic Creativity. I had great time talking with hosts Joe Wenger and Andrew Martin about how creativity can be used as a means of personal therapy whether that creativity take the…

  • Why Taylor Swift’s Return To Spotify Was Inevitable

    Where It All Began When Taylor Swift announced in 2014 that she was pulling all of her music from streaming services I had mixed feelings about it. On the one hand it made sense. Streaming revenues in and of themselves in 2014 were not great and by making a big public spectacle out of her…

  • The Slow Death Spiral of Facebook

    I’ve been a member of Facebook for 8 and a half years now and during that time I have witnessed the social media giant go through a number of changes. Some of those changes came from the company itself like modifications to the look and feel of the site to abrupt changes to their privacy…

  • God in a Box and Election Suicide

    Hello friends, I don’t often draw comics (and by not often I mean it has been years and previous efforts were  quite poor in the art department) but I decided to give it a go again this past week and create a couple new comics. I find the work relaxing and I think they turned…

  • What The Indian Removal Act of 1830 Can Teach Us About The Syrian Refugees

    Millions of refugees from Syria are flooding Europe and tens of thousands are potentially headed to the United States. Concerns over terrorists posing as refugees to gain access to western countries has reached a fevered pitch, especially in light of the horrific attacks in Paris, France last week. Even the FBI director has said that…