Fighting hard through a rather persistent case of "Marc-itis". This is the term I came up with to describe the pleasant, yet useless-for-work state of being I sometimes enter after my entrainments at Family Network Chiropractic. I'm just sort … [Read more...]

Hit a major milestone this month: 13 years sober! In a way, this event is no big deal to me. I don't struggle to stay sober. But...13 years is 13 years. No small achievement, especially when considering how much I once loved to … [Read more...]

Puerto Rican brothers Osvaldo and Orlando Marmolejos crossed paths with me at a less than desirable moment in each of our lives. We all made it out of that situation but not before we became friends. We became friends because we each realized … [Read more...]

So I cheated tonight. Sue me. I also flew in the face of the SEO gods and risked this page's ranking high in Google. Who cares? I simply needed to be seen as being consistently on time, regardless of my (secretly) unprofessional … [Read more...]

"What am I supposed to do next? If I figure that out, how am I supposed to build it? Once it's built, where am I taking it? What if 'it' is more than one thing, or multiple things?" I get it. I feel your pain. When your head is full of so many … [Read more...]

I tarried a hair today. I have excuses. But hearing excuses is not why you hired me. Sigh. So I'm hammering away at these keys and jumping back and forth between multiple windows to get this thing posted before midnight tonight. Nothing … [Read more...]

Maybe I should have used a pic of my posterior, instead of a guy in a cave for this one. Because I'm gonna do some soul-barin' here today. And this may turn out to be my most "Outsider"-ish post yet. "How far outside of the circle do I … [Read more...]

Met a nice guy who sometimes stabs people for a living! OK. He fences. Ha! Much nicer. And what a nice guy! We met as fellow practice members of my local NSA chiropractic shop. We'd both just wrapped up our entrainments and we were both … [Read more...]

Other people's maelstroms are bumping into my rainbows, lately. There are a handful of folks having very bad days of varying degrees, seemingly all around me. Some are having melt downs. Others are dealing with years' worth of faulty decision … [Read more...]

Grim image, right? Doom, death, quitting, ending it all... i.e. HOLDING STILL! There is no such thing as "holding still" in the human experience. There is only death and growth. Holding still is an illusion we get to briefly enjoy as we head … [Read more...]