Last week, a friend of mine, Gleno McIntosh, was involved in a fatal accident and has changed my perspective on life and the qualities that surround it. Gleno was 46 years old, and we had become good friends over the time we talked. I talk about Gleno now in the worst possible circumstances,...

What is the advantage of feeling complacent?  How does this differ from the pathological state of euphoria?  How can just one disdainful look crush one’s confidence?  My own personal certitude is now in doubt; I have no assurance of anything anymore.  I don’t know...

As I sit here in my hotel room in Illinois, I await my time of departure back to Seattle which comes tomorrow.  To be honest, the last two days have left my mind already departed.  When I came here, my expectations were high and my intentions were explained by what I felt inside. ...

Apparently, if an animal becomes too specialized they are more likely than a less specialized species to go extinct.  Adaptability, according to nature, is the key to survival.  A house made from materials that are too rigid will collapse when a storm hits, or when there is an earthquake. ...

Bruce Lee said, “If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.” Going into the new 2007 calendar...

Is that how it’s going to go down in the history books? As I walked up to my apartment at three in the morning, the Sunday Seattle Times newspaper was already out and the front page was the power outage from the storm. The main headlines on every national news media channel,...

Tacoma, Washington: In a desperate need to find some free wireless, I stumbled upon this coffee house in Tacoma. The atmosphere is lame, the coffee leaves a lot to be desired, and the wireless is shoddy to say the least. Not to be too much of a pessimist, the one thing it has going...

My name is Daniel, but my handle name known around the Internet is simply beansbaxter. I’ve had this domain name for several years, and have posted on thousands of online communities under the beansbaxter screename, so I figured it was my time to try my hand at Internet blogging. Until...