As a child and even through my teenaged years, my Mom, who held advanced degrees in Early Childhood Education, began warning me I had an “achilles heel to being happy”. “Mark, you want everything to be fair. To be equitable. For good to win. For evil to lose. And most of the time life is Continue reading

My Mom ( rest in peace) used to regularly say “Mark, don’t cut your nose off to spite your own face!” And while I knew what she meant, I’d never really SEEN anyone metaphorically cut their own nose off to spite their own face. But over the last few years I have and it’s such Continue reading

I’m winding down my week with a music listening session. And out of nowhere this track from 20+ years surfaces while I was on “random” shuffle. And tears just began welling up in my eyes. Because the lyrics couldn’t have been written any more succinctly than my thoughts about the current Age of Disinformation the Continue reading

It’s that simple. I have to simplify my life. And one of the ways I’m going to try to do that is drastically reduce the use of Social Media, but instead transition to logging what’s on my mind in my own little section of the digital universe, rather than continue to be an advocate for Continue reading

(This is a recapture of a previous Facebook Post that I want to make sure not to lose…) Damn, my Spotify ad-hoc list won’t leave my emotions alone today! It just popped up “Mainstreet” by Bob Seger. I’m not attached to the song or the lyrics but more of a moment in time. In high Continue reading

Neil must have had himself cloned about 35 years ago. I’ve been listening to a LOT of CSNY this week. And that evolved into watching a lot of their videos on YouTube. As I’ve watched it’s bugged me knowing I’ve seen a “younger “ doppelgänger of Neil Young . Mystery solved. 😎 Continue reading