I was a geeky kid. (You're not surprised. You've also probably heard this story before, but I'm making a point.)

When I was ten years old and had precisely one friend in the world - a friend who incidentally preferred the wrong things, Star Wars over Star Trek, old school Battlestar Galactica over old school Doctor Who - there was one thing I ( Read more... )

1. There are two musicals that I know pretty much all the words to and have since my age was in the single digits: HAIR and Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. It occurs to me that this dichotomy is the crux of my personality, the point around which all my internal conflict revolves ( Read more... )

Moments of enlightenment can come at the oddest times.

Epiphany the FirstYesterday evening in the grocery store, I was chatting with the cashier as I was checking out. This particular cashier is a gentleman with a visible disability - I'm guessing CP based on the twisted-and-locked positioning of his limbs and speech difficulties. We chat every ( Read more... )

A really interesting thing just happened to me. This morning, I'm editing some video footage that Nicole and I recorded last year for a video about the Foundation's services. It has been fun watching the different takes we did - some where my coworkers flubbed hilariously and some where they just nailed it. When they're speaking from the heart ( Read more... )