My favorite “startup” for the year 2009 is a small restaurant in Franklin, Tennessee called Oscar’s Taco Shop. Why is it my favorite startup of the year? Easy. The best Mexican food in the Nashville area plain and simple. The owner, Oscar and his family, are originally from Southern California where they had several small [...]
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What did you start this year that you’re proud of? This is today’s topic for the Best of Blog Challenge 2009. That is an easy question to answer. I created a website that I hope to make a site that gives simple advice and information for people following their dreams or searching within themselves for [...]
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Did you know that 1 plus 1 plus 2 could equal 13 and the realization that an “online” community is actually a “real” community that is just facilitated by digital technology?? 1 broken HVAC heater at the onset of winter 1 casual comment about said broken heater and the impending freezing weather to two Twitter [...]
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The setting – southern California in early August. I was driving a rental car during a brief visit to California to attend to some personal business as well as pick up my daughter so we could return to Tennessee for her annual summer visit. It was Saturday in the late afternoon. I had finished meeting [...]
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No, that’s not a typo. The topic for today is “What’s the best change you made to the place you live?” And, after a bit of introspective consideration, I knew what I would write about. I have begun a process of downsizing my life and living space. My goal is to move from a 1600 [...]
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Nashville has a fairly diverse mix of restaurants. We have everything from American (and there are SOOO many varieties in this category) to Mexican and Asian to Indian and even African restaurants. And, I have a number of friends that have enjoyed many of these restaurants. Thus, I have had an opportunity to try some [...]
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This has been quite a year for me. My job is going reasonably well. I have my health. I have fantastic friends. My daughter will graduate from high school this year and go off to college. I’ve begun to explore myself and turning my own passions into my livelihood and I have also started developing [...]
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I can answer this challenge topic quite unequivocally. The album that is rocking my world these days is Careless Love by Madeleine Peyroux. I recently discovered this album after first hearing a couple different Madeleine Peyroux songs on my Squirrel Nut Zippers station on Pandora – the internet radio “station”. If you’re not familiar with [...]
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Ok, it’s been over a week since my birthday. I’ve had a few friends join my cause and to them goes my most heartfelt thanks!! But, this is not the end. In fact, this celebration will last the month and I figured it’s time to make another appeal. So, here goes. Will you consider loaning [...]
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This year, I discovered what has to be one of my favorite outdoor activities ever – Kayaking. A couple of friends invited me early in the year to join them along with two co-workers on a kayaking “float” down the Piney River in middle Tennessee. I had never done anything like this before but I [...]
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