Tonight I had the pleasure of seeing the Hot Club of San Francisco at the Napa Valley Opera House. It was a last minute decision and I didn’t really know what to expect… they were amazing.

Sitting there listening to their gypsy jazz holiday music, I couldn’t help but thinking that I wished I could play the guitar like they could. Then I realized there was a time that I wished I could just play anything on a guitar.

About four years ago, I changed that wish into action and actually picked up a guitar and started playing around with it. While I don’t expect to headline any shows in the near future, I can play through a few songs.
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I have been thinking a lot lately about the amount of time I spend on social media sites. When I think about the cumulative time spent on social media between my personal life and the endeavors of my clients I find myself a bit frightened. Add to this the fact that I have been hanging out on social media sites since before they were really called social media sites and you have a lifetime total that surely dwarfs the time I have spent reading books, exercising and… well, you get the point.
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I have been generating blog posts for the better part of three years, for my various business ventures. Today however marks the day that I finally replace my personal online vCard with something more like a lifestream. A place outside of my business sites, a place just a bit more… personal.
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I wrote this about Jordyn’s birth 20 years ago, she’s no longer a teenager.

The golden haze lightly dripped through the wrinkles of the ancient mountainside, tapering into flower-strewn hills, which engulfed the valley with fragrance and color. In the distance one might see a sorrel mare frolicking in a stream whose tranquil persistence has etched its signature on the land for all eternity. In a land where time stood in awe of beauty, an instant came where it snapped forward a millennium. The sky, once merely an overseer, thrust itself through the heart of the land sending it spiraling into oblivion. Plunging through the apex, a white flash brought my focus upon my fiancé bent over me.
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Morning thoughts about turning 40:

After clinging to the last bastion of my 30s, I acceded to time’s insistence and turned 40. It’s one of those milestone birthdays, a big round number that leads one to take stock of how one’s life is turning out and what one’s learned up to this point.  What did my 30s teach me?
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