Beyond the Rhetoric

Every Wednesday, I share some blog posts that I find around the web. Some weeks, I say thanks to the top thinkers on Beyond the Rhetoric. Other weeks, we get a somewhat random collection of topics from a variety of bloggers. This week falls into the latter category. Trent Hamm of The Simple Dollar starts [...]

This sounds like such a simple concept, but it’s a trap that befalls many of us far more often than we’d like to admit. The fact of the matter is that human memory is terribly unreliable and it has a tendency to alter our perception of the past. Consider this prime example. Winning the Jackpot [...]

This post is coming a little late, mostly because I forgot my camera bag in Stephen’s car and didn’t get it back until a couple of days ago. In any case, you might remember that I was in Seattle last weekend for PAX Prime 2011, one of the largest gaming culture expos and events in [...]

“My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we’ll change the world.” You may not agree with some of his political viewpoints, but I think we can all agree that Jack Layton loved his country. He worked [...]

Part of the reason that I started my freelance writing business several years ago was that I wanted to have greater control over my career path. It’s my business and I can run it how I see fit. However, that does not mean that I have complete control over my destiny. In fact, just like [...]