Simple Frustration – by Al Davis
As I child growing up, in our house it was hammered into the heads of me and my siblings by our father that we had to “work our ass off” in school and get good grades due to the fact that he was paying “thousands and thousands of dollars in school fees” for us and wasn’t going to be wasting his money on “useless kids.” lol Read more…
As of recent I’ve been thinking a lot about how fame and success, its allure, and how it’s portrayed in the mass media, especially when it comes to “Hollywood success.”
Unless we hear news of a celebrity going into rehab or getting into trouble, most of the time when we hear of celebrities, we see images or footage of them on the red carpet for some movie premier or awards show, or on some ad in a magazine, newspaper or billboard, or in a movie, or in pictures at some high end, VIP celebrity party. Or, we see pictures of them dating some other celebrity, or getting in or out of their luxury sports car or in their multi million dollar mansion. Read more…
Sorry, I’ve made it a point to post a blog a week, but instead of skipping one week, I skipped two…doh! Truth be told, I have actually been working on The Viable Alternative, but on other things and with my busy schedule, I couldn’t fit in the blog as well.
Anyway, we’re all aware of the feelings we get when we get something we’ve wanted for a long time, Read more…
I’ve always been inspired by the story of the meteoric rise of Japan in the 19th and early 20th century.
It’s one of the inspirations for The Viable Alternative. Read more…
