When I was growing up I had this friend, lets call him Fleezy. (You know who you are)  At the time (8th grade) I thought he had it all.  It wasn’t until around the end of high school that I figured out what made him so cool and popular.  He had learned a very simple [...]

“Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.”  ~Ambrose Bierce I have a little bit of a temper that as I get older it’s been easier to control, but I have made a lot of speeches that I have regretted.  I have found that when I start [...]

“You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.  You are able to say to yourself, ‘I have lived through this horror.  I can take the next thing that comes along.’ You must do the thing you think you cannot do.” ~Eleanor Roosevelt I [...]

“You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you do not trust enough.” ~Frank Crane Over the past few years I have discovered what this really says.  I had a friend that I trusted too much too quickly, allowed her to move in with me, and got [...]

  “There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.” ~Nelson Mandela This makes me think of a lot of different situations from relationships to moving to family.  I think that most people have had the situation of running into an old lover a few years after [...]

If you don’t know me very well then you might be surprised to learn that I’m an avid anime buff.  And with anime gaining popularity in the U.S. (with people who wouldn’t normally watch it) I’ve compiled a list of the Top 10 Must-See Anime Series for those of you looking to pop your anime [...]

  “A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.” ~Herm Albright Have you ever met that person that is always so happy that you sit back and wonder if they’ve ever gone through a bad day?  If you have to be around [...]

If you don’t know me very well then you might be surprised to learn that I’m an avid anime buff.  And with anime gaining popularity in the U.S. (with people who wouldn’t normally watch it) I’ve compiled a list of the Top 10 Must-See Anime Series for those of you looking to pop your anime [...]

“You are the embodiment of the information you choose to accept and act upon. To change your circumstances you need to change your thinking and subsequent actions.” ~Adlin Sinclair I think it’s funny that I choose this quote for today.  I had set up a list of quotes prior to starting this, and it’s humorous [...]

If you don’t know me very well then you might be surprised to learn that I’m an avid anime buff.  And with anime gaining popularity in the U.S. (with people who wouldn’t normally watch it) I’ve compiled a list of the Top 10 Must-See Anime Series for those of you looking to pop your anime [...]