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In our culture, we now value anti-heroes more than super-heroes. Honestly, I think perhaps that our culture might be correct in idolizing imperfect people who perform heroic acts for less than heroic reasons, much like real life. Every time I have sat down to write a story about heroes, it never comes out well. On…
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When I first became serious about writing online, both in personal blogging and in freelance web writing, I read a lot about thought leadership. But, what baffled me was, despite everyone talking about becoming a thought leader, no one really talked about how one actually becomes a thought leader in your certain area of expertise.…
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I’ve learned the hard way that dwelling on other people’s opinions is like voluntarily wearing a straitjacket made of barbed wire. It doesn’t help anyone, really, least of all you. For much of my life, I was trapped in the mental torture chamber of wondering what this or that ignoramus thinks about me. Spoiler alert:…
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As inconvenient as it can be, it makes a great difference to sometimes retreat from the ways of the world to find greater clarity. Only when you turn off the noise and tune in to the rhythms of nature around you can you realize who you are meant to be all along. Prudence is a…
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In December of 2021, I penned and posted a piece titled “The Crossroads at Panic Street and Heartbreak Avenue.” I have no idea how I came up with that title. It was later published as a part of my short essay collection, Cloud Pieces. The state of the world has only gotten worse since then.…
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My mind is a racetrack with too many open loops. Much of the time it hosts a free-for-all of racing thoughts, zooming past one another at breakneck speeds, leaving behind trails of dust, confusion, and expletives. Every corner is littered with distractions, detours, and unfinished business, waiting to be completed. The gray matter in my…
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There’s something almost poetic about stumbling across a quote that smacks you in the face with its sheer truth. It’s especially true when it’s from a woman whose life was a masterclass in walking the tightrope between brilliance and batshit crazy. Marilyn Monroe once quipped, “Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius, and it’s better to…
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225 years on, 89,304 days as an independent nation, and we are still here. Sure, the experiment hasn’t worked out quite as well as many of us would’ve liked, but here we are. Just over a decade later, the same Constitution we have today, albeit many amendments later, would be brought into effect. And still,…
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When we are young, do we really know who our heroes are? Our innocence shields us from the truth of sin; we don’t yet fathom the subterfuge of what is today commonly called “adulting”. So much of what we learn as kids turns out to be hollow promises and flat out lies. I often lay…
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Years ago, I was assigned an essay about what my superpower would be if I could have just one. I don’t recall if it was for a college scholarship or something, but interestingly enough, my answer remains the same as it did back in 2005. If I could have one superpower, it would be the…