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The First Blogs Were Online Diaries: What is Yours?

I’ve always sought to understand big ideas by looking at their history. I change my focus and theme a lot on this blog because I am always seeking to understand this concept. I think I am now content with damienriley.com as an “online diary” but understand that perecptions of that term vary person to person.
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Putting Kids to Bed

I don’t think I’ve ever gone through something so frustrating as a parent as this. We gave in after three nights of literal torture for her and us. Her screaming, us staying up holding her, her never going to sleep … Kids aren’t a ten step list on “eHow.com” Sometimes they color outside the lines and in our house, that’s okay.

Damien Riley, "Present!"

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I asked myself a question today as I was preparing to go out into my Truman Show here at the Funny Farm here I call my life. The question was based half on Eckhart Tolle’s book, A New Earth and half on my own outlook on life. Blogs can be a great way to [...]

Pizza, Pong, and Strip Mall Zen

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No, I won’t be needing more than one slice since I have no teeth. I just gum it.

Our family is a democracy when it comes to most decisions: especially where to eat. I won’t list them, but each one in my family (5) has her/his preference and they seldom mesh. Tonight I [...]

Course Correction and MMOL Through Writing in 2008

When boats aim at a destination, they need a rudder to correct their course again and again to reach the goal. This starts at the departure and continues to the end of the journey. Since I started writing articles in this blog, my goal has always been to reach people with my [...]

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