This poem comes from some random day or night back in 2018, but the sentiment remains the same now. Please don’t count me among the people who think going back in time will solve all our problems. Yes, social media is its own kind of sickness for the human spirit, but it’s not the first …
One of the detriments of digital life is that it all boils down to numbers. Whether it’s the number of friends or followers, the number of likes and shares a post gets on social media, the number of page views on a blog, the number of pages of search results before your thing pops up, …
Early this morning, I was sitting on my porch sipping tea and writing in my journal. Normally, I’d make some sort of crack about moving into a nursing home next week, but I’ll try to be somewhat serious for a moment. What I found myself doing was writing down what it felt like in that …
It’s been over six months since starting my new social media policy and it seems like a decent time to examine how things have been going. In true 2020 form, I decided to make a major shift in some of my habits and was immediately smacked in the head by the flying turd that is …
Sometimes, it’s fun to mess around on the page (or screen). a man out of time had Bukowski lived in the Age of Facebook, you know damn well he’d have been trolling at 2am instead of writing poems drunk as hell, giggling as he typed another flamethrower reply then sit back & watch the show …
Last week was one helluva month. I’m not searching for sympathy or a pat on the back. Lots of folks have it much worse than I do and I’m grateful for all the wonderful things in my life as well as just the basics of food, shelter, and clean water. The above statement for me …
For those who might be tuning in via my Facebook post and my post about Facebook from yesterday, welcome to Word Wednesday! Each week, I post poems that I’ve been working on in place of a more traditional blog post. If you click on the category, you’ll see lots of blackout poems – where a …
Well shucks, that sounds awfully corporate and official for some guy working out of his house, but it’s actually the best title I could come up with. The beginning of this year has been interesting and I’ve begun to think of my life as more of being CEO of Todd, Inc. rather than just doing …
Monday was the first time being back on personal social media for three weeks. I had some guidelines in mind for how to relate to Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter going forward, but I was also curious how things would go over the first few days without putting the plan in place. Since my little vacation …
When my wife and I signed up for Facebook just after the dinosaurs went extinct, our friends count turned into a contest. I think that might’ve been the last time that Facebook was purely fun. I’ve been off personal social media for the last 18 days or so with my only dalliances being a quick …