There is a restaurant in Oakcliff Texas named Smoke. Eddie and I would go there pretty frequently often times ordering the BBQ pork with poached egg atop an expertly prepared biscuit drizzled with ...

I was catching up on some reading and came across the quoted paragraph below in a two page excerpt from the Sun Magazine December 2016 issue. “Some years ago, scientists attempted to create a long...

One of my colleagues back in Texas overheard me cursing at my oatmeal one morning. I’ve always had a less than perfect relationship with its bland, wet and lumpy self. No matter how much raisins, m...

So I set out to try hammock camping two weekends ago. The thing about this is that I’ve been watching some You Tubers channels to learn more about living outdoors for a few days at a stretch. While...

The largest SharePoint application that I’ve designed so far, which I have yet to blog on architecture, began with the desire to roll a no code solution. 12 months later from the time that it hit ...

This is part of a small stress testing project I wrote to test a user interface I built using a Content Query Web Part, a little jQuery and some XSL. The idea was to generate a couple 1000 document...

So I’ve been taking some time to circle back to meditation, which I totally suck at unless it’s in a pair of running shoes. It’s the brain of an Aquarian. All scattered a few steps ahead and secret...

2015 was the year I discovered how much I enjoyed running. It was also a year that came with more than my share of lessons. One of them was that once Winter started to take hold of Central Ohio my ...

I read “Don’t sleep with your smartphone nearby,” by Bob Greene on CNN a couple weeks ago. While I’m not an app guy, I think I’m aware of the phone (the gateway to email and Twitter) on my nightsta...

[This post is an adaptation from a response I left for a much younger man in his early 30’s who experienced a heart attack recently. Having dealt with anxiety for the past three years, I thought it...