No, the title is not a spelling error. Just keep reading. Ever since my dad came home with an original Nintendo (despite him actually wanting an Atari), I’ve been a big fan of video games. Now that I have kids of my own, my playing time has been reduced to almost zero, but I still like to keep up with the latest news (or, in…
I guess this means I’ve come in a full circle. When I first started writing four years ago, it was to help me get through a rough spot. I really wouldn’t have turned to writing without the inspiration of my wonderful wife, who convinced me that writing was something people did outside of mandatory classroom assignments and one off misspelled Facebook updates. From there, I…
(Note: this was originally on my tax blog CreativelyAccounting.com, but I moved it over here, since it is not tax related) I saw last week that Disney’s Sleeping Beauty was soon going to be re-released. Since I have kids and am therefore required to buy everything Disney, I decided to look up the release date and price on Amazon. While I was scrolling through the product…
(Note: this was originally on my tax blog CreativelyAccounting.com, but I moved it over here, since it is not tax related) I didn’t post last week, but I have a good excuse. I was in Disneyland. A few months ago I read an article by a popular columnist complaining that vacations ruined his ability to write for a while. I’m having that problem now. In…
(Note: this was originally on my tax blog CreativelyAccounting.com, but I moved it over here, since it is not tax related) Last week, while I was trying to shift over to Goodreads (Amy linked my Amazon account with her Shelfari account a couple years ago, which recently resulted in my Shelfari account disappearing), I wrote a review of the recently read Beautiful Creatures as a cathartic release….
(Note: this was originally on my tax blog CreativelyAccounting.com, but I moved it over here, since it is not tax related) Sheryl Sandberg’s Ban Bossy campaign has been making its rounds on the interblags over the last couple months, and, other than having a conversation or two with my wife about it, it’s been little more than an interesting side note in my life. But this last…
(Note: this was originally on my tax blog CreativelyAccounting.com, but I moved it over here, since it is not tax related) When we were at the library the other day, I saw the Disney Peter Pan movie available for checkout. Remembering how much I liked the movie when I was a kid, I decided to give it a chance before purchasing it from that super-secret…