Seizing a Lifetime, One Day at a Time

I didn't write this letter, but I can't put my feelings into words any better. I'm a home grown American citizen, 53, registered Democrat all my life. Before the last presidential election I registered as a Republican because I no longer felt the Democratic Party represents my views or works to pursue issues important to me. Now I no longer feel the Republican Party represents my views or works to pursue issues important to me. The fact is I no longer feel any political party or representative in Washington represents my views or works to pursue the issues important to me. There must be someone. Please tell me who you are. Please stand up and tell me that you are there and that you're willing to fight for our Constitution as it was written. Please stand up now. You might ask yourself what my views and issues are that I would horribly feel so disenfranchised by both major political parties. What kind of nut job am I? Will you please tell me? Well, these are briefly my ...

I’ve been in Boise almost a month now! The time is flying by. It’s been great and I’ve loved every minute of it. (Except that minute a few nights ago where mosquitoes devoured my feet, but every other minute has been great!) I really am loving it. My internship is great and I’ve been learning a lot. I’m also not sure if programming computers is really for me. I love it and it’s a lot of fun, but it’s really hard to focus on for 8 hours a day. I’d rather be talking to people, interacting with real life beings. Maybe I am supposed to teach. Luckily, I don’t really have to deal with that right now! Besides work, life is good. I just got called to be the Elders Quorum Pianist in church. It’s not a big calling, but it’s something for me to do and I’m loving it. I’ve started making a lot of friends up here. I mostly just hang out with my roommates, but we have people over a lot to play rock band. I also made ice cream on Sunday and it was excellent. (It’s also the first time I had some lef...

Well, I haven't posted in a while. Such is life. I was thinking about this blog and what I should keep writing about. The idea of defining myself was fun, but I really ran out of things that define me. The fact is, my interests, personality, morals, and characteristics are always changing. Sometimes I wish I were a cowboy and others I want to run for president. The fact is, there's only one way to know who I am and that's to get to know me personally. So it's time for a new topic. I don't know how long this will last, but I came up with this 2 minutes ago while I was chatting with someone on facebook about my new goal to not be pathetic. 2 minutes ago I decided that I was going to set a new year's resolution to be less pathetic. "But it's not new years today", you may say. Well that's true, but everyday starts a new year. So for now my topic will be the random things I've decided to set as new year goals, each and everyday. We'll see ho...

Boo! It's me again. Did I scare you? Probably not, seeing as you are here reading my blog, but I figured it was a worthy attempt in honor of Halloween. Maybe it would be more appropriate to sing a Christmas Carol or something since Halloween is over. I hear FM 100 has already started playing their Christmas songs. How exciting! I love this time of the year. Anyway, thanks for reading. I've really had troubles trying to decide what part of myself to define next. There's been a lot on my mind lately, but as I've started writing this post, I've never been able to finish it. Until now. I finally came up with the next thing that defines me and it's music. I love music! It's been a huge part of my life and continues to influence a lot of what I do. It's funny how my interests have changed over the years. I hope you don't mind while I reminisce a little bit about my life with respect to music. My earliest memories of music include a lot of country music whi...

I felt like it's time for another self-defining blog posts, but I couldn't think of anything amazing to write about. Then I realized something so extremely unique about myself that I couldn't help but spew out this amazing gift on my blog. I am an Imaginator Extraordinaire. I know what you're thinking and yes, I am that cool. Okay so maybe you weren't thinking that. In fact, you're probably thinking, what the heck is this guy talking about? (Next week I will tell you about how I'm psychic and know what everyone's thinking, but for now will stick with this). Well, I love to imagine. I love to dream. I love to get carried away on strange fantasies where I have some unique gift that can save humanity. I love to ponder about how I might act in different roles of life: as president, husband, CEO, TV star, or just plain old Joe the Plumber. (Couldn't resist...) I remember growing up I used to watch this show called Sliders. I used to imagine that it was re...