Andrew Michael Miller's Thought Backlog
Writer and working Agile professional. Author of Pancho's Fall.
So this is going to sound like deja vu to anyone who has been paying attention, but I recently migrated my site from the site thoughtbacklog.wordpress.com to this site, thoughtbacklog.com. It was a lot of work getting the site moved to a self-hosted site, and unfortunately I had some work ahead of me prior to being able to really start posting again. Enter the hiccup.
When life starts to get you down, what pulls you out of it? In a time when it seems like everything is doom and gloom, and the future is uncertain, how do you stand against such a torrent of bad ju-ju? If you haven't figured it out yet, or if the same old things that used to make you happy are starting to become dull, then here are some simple things you can try. You never know, you might find some hidden truth about human nature that you never would have seen before. Sometimes, you just have to do what Mitch Hedberg once said, and "get your priorities crooked."
For your reading pleasure, I submit the following essay as a birthday present from me to myself and you. I wrote this 12 years ago for a class in college. I have not edited the paper whatever, no matter how much it burns me to read some of the sentence structure issues I see with it now. I think it's more important to preserve the past so that I can accurately track my progress as a writer. Nevertheless, I hope you will enjoy my essay as much as I enjoy remembering it. February 7, 2008 "My Moment of Change" Life was good for me up to about 21 years ago. I was having a great time swimming through each… Continue reading My Birthday Gift to Myself – An Essay I Wrote in College
In 2020, Cable News is as American as apple pie. On both sides of the political fence, opinion pundits have taken over as the most trusted forms of information, at least for the older generations. If you have found yourself more agitated and angry the older you get, perhaps it's time to consider what might be causing these feelings of resentment and discomfort. It's very possible that simply cutting out the cable news channels in your life could see a dramatic improvement on your outlook, temperament and mental health. Here are five reasons why you should cut that cord forever.
One of the key things I realized when I started building the world and structuring the stories for my book series was that I needed to do a lot more reading. Books I had put off reading for one reason or another for a long time now seemed more important than ever to consume. My wording of the first draft was weaker than I had hoped, but I knew that it ultimately didn't matter as it was just a first draft.