How I Identify Myself

I realized something this morning. I realized that my definition of myself has changed over the years. I have always identified myself by the roles which I play in society, instead of who I really am, and what I love doing. Let me me explain…

What I do is less important than who I…

I was re-reading one of my favorite books lately, Visual Poetry by Chris Orwig, and this idea really stuck out to me.  I haven’t been able to stop thinking about it.  What I do is less important than who I am, or said another way, who I am is more important than what I do.

Can you hear me?

As somebody who creates things, and would love for those things to get noticed, it’s pretty hard to get people’s attention.  Honestly, most people just can’t be bothered.  We all have our own lives to live.  I find security in Facebook over Twitter though.  Let me set the record straight, I really don’t like Facebook much, for a whole bunch of reasons, but there’s one reason that I stick with it…

The Ghost of Poor Old Ellie Bowers

I just finished putting together a video for my band, Jearbear.  The song is about a pioneer woman named Eilley Bowers in the old west who had everything, then lost it all, and now supposedly haunts her former mansion.

NextGEN Gallery slideshow with Navigation

NOTE: This post was written nearly 6 years ago initially. I don’t implement this particular solution any longer, but I’m leaving it up in case it points somebody in a useful direction in the future…

I’m using the free version of the WordPress NextGEN gallery, which by the way, is a pretty great plugin.  I wanted to use the slideshow, but wanted to have navigation attached to it.  The slideshow in the free version of NextGEN gallery doesn’t have the navigation.  I particularly like the navigation used in the Superslides jquery plugin.  So for what it’s worth, here’s what I did…

The Power of Positive Thinking?

My wife has been training to run a big race coming up.  A Ragnar trail relay.  For those who are unfamiliar with it, you get 8 people together (on her team anyways, there are crazies with less), and you each run 3 trails.  An 8.4 mile trail, a 4 mile trail, and a 3.1 mile trail. When it’s your turn, you’re running, when it’s not, you’re sleeping, along with your team and other runners, in the basecamp they’ve setup.  The relay goes 24 hours a day until it’s done.  It’s legit.