December 2010
3 posts
Quarter Century Crisis
Growing up you always have goals laid out ahead of you. The big ones are to get a couple pieces of expensive paper on your way to a job, family and house. Well I got the expensive paper and I love my job. Forget the house, I don’t want one. That is not in my dream. Neither is a fancy car (granted their is a car in the dream but its old school mini cooper). So I hit a couple of my life goals with...
Tip of the hat to hipsters
I am not officially a hipster because my pants are loose fit, my bike has gears, and I can’t grow a decent mustache but I must say I respect the hipster attitude. The hipster attitude is a way to approach the world with fresh eyes. Much like a little kid, hipsters enjoy simple acts of cooking and going for a bike ride. They celebrate the passions of other people and encourage people to live the...
52 Books
My new years resolution for 2010 was to read a book a week. I just finished the fifty-third book this week and thought I would do a quick list of my favorites. I read quite a few classics this year and some of those made the list because they truly are timeless. Many of the books I read this year where on current events. From stories of North Korean deserters, to the forgotten people during...