by admin | Jun 13, 2011 | Life Lessons
I’m sure most of you remember those horse rides where the really bored looking horses go around and around in a circle while little children with sticky cotton candy fingers hold on to the reins for dear life, taking their little buckaroo for the ride of their...
by admin | Jun 10, 2011 | Life Lessons
As a child, I grew up on a dead end road in the Kennydale neighborhood of Renton, Washington. It was the ideal place for a kid to grow up. The street was merely an extension of our yard, playing host to go-carts, ramps to jump our bikes off of, street hockey, games of...
by admin | Jun 1, 2011 | Life Lessons
I was reading Time magazine this morning. They had an article about how we are hardwired to be delusionally optimistic. Even when the facts run contrary to the moment, we tend to always think of the glass as half full. The general reasoning is that we have unbridled...
by admin | May 30, 2011 | Life Lessons
Growing up somewhat poor, I learned the hard lesson of deferred gratification. It may be hard to recall now, but that’s what we called saving up for something and then buying it with cash. In the old days, credit cards didn’t exist. In fact, the first...
by admin | May 24, 2011 | Life Lessons
For many years I received a bum rap. I was told and it was well known among my friends that I didn’t travel well. In fact, I would often hear one of my friends tell another, “Robb doesn’t travel well” under their breath as we were standing at...
by admin | May 20, 2011 | Life Lessons
My car is roughly eight years old. It’s a bit of a piece of crap. It squeaks and grinds in several places and really doesn’t want to get up and go like it once did. It may be time to get rid of the Black Widow. Funny how it all works. I think an eight year...
by admin | May 16, 2011 | Life Lessons
They say that history repeats itself. I know this to be absolutely true for I have experienced it myself on more than one occasion, which come to think of it, would be necessary for the “repeat” portion of this old saw. I’m not full of “man...
by admin | Apr 27, 2011 | Life Lessons
Like most people, I used to think I exercised a lot of control over my life. I could make the decisions that would guide me on the path toward riches and fame, a long lasting marriage, a rewarding career and a well earned reputation in the community. Boy, was I wrong....
by admin | Apr 22, 2011 | Life Lessons
I was watching Morgan Spurlock on TED.com this morning. If you don’t remember him, he’s the guy who ate nothing but McDonald’s food for 30 days and lived to not only tell about it, but make a movie, Supersize Me. Anyway, he was talking about his...
by admin | Apr 15, 2011 | Life Lessons
I’ve been writing my pirate memoirs recently. Or should I say, still. It covers the last 30 years performing as a pirate. It’s about 70,000 words long right now and I haven’t yet passed 1995. I still have a ways to go it seems, and worse, I keep...
