Shane Dayton I’m not whole unless I’m feeding my inner artist, and since I knew I wanted to be a “story writer” since I was 3 years old, I’ve had many decades to train my brain to look for story ideas, projects, creative potential everywhere I looked. While life does what it does, and a rough decade …
There are a lot of things about the Internet that are amazing…and there are many things about living in an online world that have undeniably made things more challenging or seem to make the world worse. As much as I love living in the online age, I couldn’t argue with anyone who said it was …
I know I should really apologize for that title…but I’m not going to 🙂 Hopefully everyone is having a good 2022 as we’re trying to leave the utter dumpster fire that was 2020 further and further behind in the rearview mirror. One of the most interesting things for me with any year is by habit …
This is going to be a weird post for me, and there are multiple reasons for this: I thought I’d be dead before 30, 35 at the latest, much less making it past 40 Thinking long-term is a relatively new process for me as a result It took several years but it is really paying …
The strangest thing about coming out with the newest quarterly review was that it took me so long to get the goals letter written this year that it’s only really been a month and change. Which obviously is far less than a full quarter for trying to get everything done and get on pace even …
The statistics are plenty sobering, and to be blunt before going on: there are plenty of good reasons for Gen X’ers, Millennials, and Gen-Z to be pissed about how things work and how much policies enacted 30-40 years ago have thoroughly screwed so many of them when it comes to finances. But that doesn’t change …
Imagine having the type of life that sounds like the beginning bio of a famous early American author. Travel, adventure, overjoyed life leaping from one opportunity or adventure to another, seeing the nation and making your own path through a brand new road along the way. Loving life, potential turning into earnings and recognition, each …
WOOOOOOOO-WE! Well it’s been a rough end to 2021 with some serious medical scares, and months of follow up tests just to make sure I’m out of the woods (or getting new meds and procedures and treatments to get me there) but after that rough tumble end, it’s nice to come back to the blog …
One of the amazing things about books is that you can get years or even decades of knowledge, experience, and expertise put down into a few hundred pages and handed to you to grab at a young age. In only days. That’s really stunning when you think about it. I’ve always been a HUGE reader, …
I knew what I wanted to be when I grew up since I was 3 years old. One of those people where it was clear right away. I wanted to be a writer. I wrote thousands of stories in my lifetime, constantly writing in study hall, at home, on vacation, at college, at grad school. …