1. A Homecoming Of Sorts
(Creativity/Blog Musings)

... time! The good thing about something like a 20 year reunion is that it gives you some perspective on life. The "20 year" part didn't faze me at all. And in the Reader's Digest abridged ve...

2. The Power Lies Within
(Creativity/Blog Musings)

...ghty universe. Perhaps God, or Allah, or Vishnu, is within all of us. Simultaneously. Not as a deity or life force or energy source or mystical guru with all the answers, but purely as a symbol of tha...

3. Capture The Moment
(Creativity/Blog Musings)

...t in it's simplicity, yet challenging in it's deeper meaning. We're caught up in the passage of time. Life. Experience. Spirituality. A series of moments, all demanding a description, an expression ...

4. Swimming In The Stream Of Social Media
(Creativity/Blog Musings)

...rrying about with the goal of updating your status real-time can add a cognitive pause to the flow of a life experience. But it's hard to be in the moment of the experience when you're flying along in...

5. Tiger Woods, Augusta, And The Court Of Public Opinion
(Creativity/Blog Musings)

...ny of which they really would like to change. At what point do people say "you know, the guy's got a life to repair, some harsh lessons to learn about himself, and maybe we should just let him get ...

6. Rhubarb Ruminations: Episode 1
(Creativity/Blog Musings)

...ers "Elect me and I'm going to Washington, D.C, and will try to make it as inconsequential on your life as I can make it". Frankly, I don't want my elected representatives to be "inconsequen...

7. The Bucket List
(Creativity/Blog Musings)

... on to the next item. It's done. It's so 21st century. In my humble opinion, there is so much more to life than just knocking a bunch of items off a to-do list. And therein lies the incongruity for ...

8. Friendship: New Meaning In The Digital Age?
(Creativity/Blog Musings)

... and LMAO and emoticons. Now, we're faced with the context of a digital existence dovetailing with your life. The journey that is friendship shows some tricky new twists and turns. Or does it? ...

9. Serenity
(Creativity/Blog Musings)

...pletely. There is a sweet serenity of letting go . exhaling . breathing in the moments that we call life, a string of pearls, moment to moment, strung together between the breaths. It is the seren...

10. After The Gold Rush
(Creativity/Blog Musings)

... of dedication, sacrifice, and desire - stories that simply transcend competition, that are bigger than life, that reflect the microcosm of life that is sport in general. The Olympics also remind us o...

11. Letting Go And Running With It
(Creativity/Blog Musings)

...re are too many distractions in our world that readily assail us at any juncture. Whether it's work, or life, or relationships, or family, or any combination, it's easy to get caught up in the "stuff"...

12. Mammograms, Evidence, And Emotional Debate
(Creativity/Blog Musings)

...you based on your "family history, general health, and personal values", and awareness of the effect of lifestyle on reducing those risks (if possible). Granted, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Fo...

13. Reflection And Refraction: The Physics Of Life
(Creativity/Blog Musings)

...ion of alcohol, or watching the ball drop on Time's Square. But when left to your own thoughts about life, when left facing the challenges of your world, you may sometimes revel in some newfound in...

14. The Disturbing Trend Of Religious Intolerance
(Creativity/Blog Musings)

...greater insight into the world (and it's people) and provides me with varying and unique perspective of life on the planet. The issue of religion and religious freedom once again came to the forefro...

15. Right Here, Right Now
(Creativity/Blog Musings)

I never imagined that a squirrel would provide some valuable life lessons. That's certainly what I thought - until one fateful day not that long ago. Wilber was his name. Wilber the squirrel. In all

16. A Binary World
(Creativity/Blog Musings)

...t, the definition of "elegance in simplicity". And this series of digits brings to mind the fact that life is just a series of simple, straight-forward decisions. It is but a decision made at every ...

17. Life As Music, Music As Life
(Creativity/Blog Musings)

...d up. I swear, it's going by faster today than it ever has before. Or it certainly seems that way. Life. It's plays out fast, like an arpeggio, a stratospheric Eric Johnson guitar riff - when all...

18. Hypocrisy And Health Care
(Creativity/Blog Musings)

...here, learn from it, build a better product on a foundation of knowledge that we already have, and make life better for everyone and save money in the meantime. But to do so, we have to get past the h...

19. A Pause In My Day
(Creativity/Blog Musings)

...erapy program. It's great to see what has happened to people as they have gone down the many roads that life provides all of us ... and where we end up - mentally, physically, emotionally, spiritually...

20. Ayrton 1994
(Creativity/Blog Musings)

...ed like an eternity. You just knew something wasn't right. And it wasn't. The accident took the life of Ayrton Senna - three-time world champion, and without a doubt one of those special athl...

21. Full Service
(Creativity/Blog Musings)

...as very appropriate and telling. One thing that suddenly stood out in my mind was how so much of life has changed - even simple things like gas stations. Do you remember full servivce gas stati...

22. Earth Hour, Meet John Galt
(Creativity/Blog Musings)

...ost symbolic skyscrapers and monuments, those things that reflect our moving to a more advanced way of life, the life-saving advances made possible by that same industrial energy ... perhaps that i...

23. The Lost Art Of The Free Throw
(Creativity/Blog Musings)

... a "foul shot" ... others call it a "charity shot". Over the course of a basketball lifetime, you will shoot thousands of them. You've been doing it since you were old enough (and ...

24. The Art Of Writing
(Creativity/Blog Musings)

... In a perfect world, I like to write every 2 or 3 or 4 days. That is certainly dependent upon "life" and time and schedules and all the stuff we all wrestle on a daily basis. It's not a ...

25. January 20 - Simply Moving
(Creativity/Blog Musings)

...ee the basis for this. And if you go to the music of the '60s, you'll find this phrase (though for the life of me, I can't remember exactly what performer or song, though my mind keeps going back t...

26. Brace For Impact
(Creativity/Blog Musings)

... truth was stranger than fiction. This is one time in which the media presented us with an amazing real-life story - which had a great ending. US Airways Flight 1549 was heading to Charlotte, No...

27. Mighty Fine In Oh-Nine
(Creativity/Blog Musings)

...oes by so fast - and hard as it is to believe, faster by the moment. There are so many things to do in life, so many things to explore and to learn. In our digital era, we are inundated with inform...

28. Living Colour ... Is Alive And Vivid
(Creativity/Blog Musings)

...! It was a perfect example of hearing the right music, in the right frame of mind, at the right time in life. "Vivid" would also produce the classic "Cult of Personality". T...

29. A Brave New World
(Creativity/Blog Musings)

... the case may be), not as an advocate of "us versus them", but as a person reading someone's life experience for face value. I listened intently to his speech at the Democratic National Co...

30. When Powell Talks, People Listen
(Creativity/Blog Musings)

...was 14 years old at the time of 9/11, and he waited until he can go serve his country, and he gave his life.  Now, we have got to stop polarizing ourself in this way.  And John McCain is ...