Over the last few months, I’ve focused a lot on rewriting LyricWell.com. As a result, I’m having trouble keeping up with these blog posts. In order to focus on the rewrite so I can finish…

I watched a fair amount of FIFA World Cup games earlier this month. I don’t watch much soccer outside of those games and there are probably a lot of people who do the same. Even…

Have you ever heard (or written) a song that sounds like it could be part of a textbook? There may be a lot of information you want to get across, but it’s not going to…

I recently started cleaning up my inboxes. They were full of hundreds of emails that I either never opened or planned to follow-up on didn’t. They’re not completely cleared out, but I’m making progress. Things…

I’m currently reading a book called Material World: A Global Family Portrait. It documents the lives of average families in thirty nations around the globe. Each family was photographed outside their home surrounded by all of…

I recently went to a Jeremy Enigk show. If you’ve ever been a fan of emo music, you should know who he is. The things he’s written as a solo artist and with his primary…

Curiosity starts at a young age. When you don’t know much of anything, almost anything is interesting. It doesn’t take long before kids start asking “What’s that?” or “Why?” Unfortunately, most of us stop asking…

My family and I recently got back from a beach vacation. One day we went to the beach and the waves were great for boogie boarding, averaging about 3-4 feet high. The place we were…

We were swimming at a pool yesterday and my oldest son said something that surprised me. He had jumped in quite a bit but it’s something that’s relatively new to him. He said: “If I’m…

If someone asks you what you’re doing, it’s impossible to be doing “nothing.” At any time you are doing some of the following: breathing laying sitting standing walking looking smelling listening tasting If you say…