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(Click here to read an excerpt written by Ralph Waldo Emerson in 1838, which I found about 15 minutes after writing this post. Unbelievable. Obviously, while I try to write as simple as possible, Emerson doesn’t bother with that. He isn’t afraid to expound on his principles at length. Back…

Where do I go from here? This is a question Beethoven must have asked himself many times after realizing that he was going deaf.  Imagine, one of the greatest inspired composer, pianist or musician that ever lived walked the face of the earth was deaf for the later part of…

I was in Facebook chatting with someone I had just met online and they asked me… “So, what do you do for fun?” This question put me back a couple steps. I realized that, at that moment in time, I was not having much real fun. So I asked myself…

I sang the role of Don Jose in the opera Carmen by George Bizet in more productions than any other opera in my repertoire. In fact, it was the first opera I ever saw in person, which isn’t entirely true because I was in it. I played the role of…

I’ve been watching a video series about the history of Germany and how the establishment of the Holy Roman Empire as a religious and political power created a culture which paved the way for intellectual growth. Information during the Middle Ages was of great value. Every single book was “printed”…

I like to write a lot, sometimes scribble a lot, maybe even do large drawings of ideas and just brainstorming on paper.  What to do with all of that? I like to work things out on paper. See it in front of me and make decisions and work on ideas…

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQ1u-vnQtso?rel=0&controls=0] You have value for just being you.  This very valuable piece of information is something that nobody tells you. The other thing nobody tells you is that this value can be monetized.  How? By blogging!  Blogging is a broadcasting medium which fuses together all elements of media, the…