Opinion

I walked through the city the other day on streets I have walked thousands of times.  I have never stepped in a pothole or unintentionally bumped into anybody.  But, I realized, I had seen so little because I had failed to look up.

Look up.

It’s something that you infrequently do; nobody does.

We all have to look straight ahead.  This is a given.  Imagine if you did not look straight ahead when you were performing life’s most basic tasks…like driving.  TV, something all of us do all the time, would certainly be less enjoyable if we did not look straight ahead-it would be like radio!

Remember the days when radio ruled?  You probably do not because you were not alive.  Those people who would remember the radio days are not reading this because they are not currently on the Internet…they are listening to the radio.

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M. Scott Peck leads my list of the top fraudulet self-help gurus.  This may come as a surprise to many of his devotees but let’s at least discuss the possibility.

I never liked him because the first line of his famous book, The Road Less Traveled, says Life is Difficult. 

My mom and her friends all read this book.  My mom used to constantly remind me that yes, Richard, Life Is Difficult.  This got me depressed.  And my mom’s friends too. Hence, the future success of Prozac Nation.

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If you’re wondering what you should do when you’re procrastinating, I might just have a quick answer for you.

You see, as I write this, it is the day after St. Patrick’s day.  Being part Irish, you might be able to guess why I would like to procrastinate right now after last nights’ activities.

How about you? What’s your reason for procrastinating?

I have many more things that I should be doing…marketing my SEO software, writing an article on one of many topics that I’ve jotted down, or preparing for the impending visit from a “friend” who is upset with me because she says that I was “flirty” last night.

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As I have been Crackle Barrel Travelin’ through the Southern States, I came across someone my many years in California nearly made me forget:  The Southern Redneck.

We often have a bit of fun with the notion of The Redneck, but they possess highly prized ideas which can be valuable to remember.  Things like:   Beer is good, even when it’s not imported.    Go for it-she’s a second cousin.  And, of course, you don’t need to finish high school when you can get your GED.

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My friend Bob asked me the other day, “What does it mean to poke someone on Facebook?”

Initially, I did not give it much thought and responded, “A poke on Facebook…it’s simply an acknowledgment.”

“But,” Bob doth protested, “do you think sometimes a Poke can be much more than a poke?  Do some Facebook pokes have more significance than others?”

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