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Continue reading →: Learn to Play ‘Die With A Smile’ on PianoThe adults are making music again, and it sounds amazing. This week’s No. 1 song in the United States is the hit duet from Bruno Mars and Lady Gaga called “Die With A Smile.” You can give it a listen here: Bruno and Gaga co-wrote the song with Dernst Emile…
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Continue reading →: Ranking the best types of weather: A personal listIn Oklahoma City, it will be 55 degrees today. Tomorrow, it might as well be a billion below zero. Winter has finally arrived in the Southern Plains, and it’s not nearly as bad as it could be. To our north, Wichita is getting it on Saturday night. There’s even a…
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Continue reading →: Lessons from my second day as a digital consultantYou can’t drink all day if you don’t start in the mornin’. It’s a metaphor for this blog and my quest to post once daily for the entire year. I already missed Jan. 1 and 2, but if I make it 363 of 365 days in 2025, it shall be…
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Continue reading →: Gratitude during the Christmas season, and excited for the futureI’ll address the elephant in the room. I’ve posted to this site exactly seven times thus far in 2024. For a digital dude such as myself, that’s way too little. And I know that. So I quit my job. Well, that’s not why. That’s not the cause and effect or,…
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Continue reading →: After the Texas blowout: What’s Next for the Oklahoma Sooners and Brent Venables?Oklahoma fell to 4-2 with a loss to Texas on Oct. 12, but it was the way the Sooners lost that has fans concerned.
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Continue reading →: Rediscovering Jim Capaldi’s “Fierce Heart” albumPaying homage to one of the underrated albums of the 1980s, “Fierce Heart” by the great Jim Capaldi.
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Continue reading →: Celebrating a Master’s Degree from Arizona State UniversityNearly two years and ten courses into it, I am finally a Master’s graduate from Arizona State University’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication. Was the Digital Audience Strategy (DAS) program worth it? Yes, but I’ll detail that in a blog or blogs down the road. There is…
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Continue reading →: Recipe Review: Jacques Pépin’s Easy Chicken Au FourIt’s been a while since I’ve done a recipe post, so let me introduce you to this TikTok chef I found — Jacques Pépin. Of course, I know who he is: a French culinary legend with 24 James Beard Foundation Awards. Pépin didn’t merely win these awards, he knows James…
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Continue reading →: Supporting creators is good for the spirit and soul.I’m genuinely trying to do things differently this year. I’m not talking about a resolution; I’m talking about a revolution or, more precisely, an evolution of the mind, spirit, body, and soul. Although not nearly as drastic as it sounds. As I get older, and unfortunately, I do by the…
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Continue reading →: The humdrum of a year gone by too fast.Each year I think the same thing as the clock chimes midnight into Jan. 1: “It will be the snap of a finger, the blink of an eye before we do this again.” And then I make a handful of resolutions without much focus, without a ton of planning, and…
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