Testing The Blogger App

This is a test of the Blogger app for my phone. The URL below is for an old post, but the message is still current.

http://www.thejackb.com/2010/07/03/full-circle/

The Power of Words & Podcasting





The House Is Rockin'

Thankful for many things this Sunday night, good friends, good people, great memories and all sorts of ideas. Almost time to string these stories together.

Got to git for a bit but I'll be back later tonight.

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What is wrong with a little tongue.

How To Do What Is Required

Sometimes we spend too much time asking how to do something and not enough doing whatever it is that has to be done.

Granted there is merit in trying to figure things out so that you don't make mistakes and don't have to work harder but there is also a time when you cannot ask questions because no one will know the answer.

The answer to how is to "try" and to figure out how to fly before you hit the ground. Sometimes you won't make it and you'll remember the thump you made when you hit the ground but many times you will and few things are more rewarding than knowing you figured it out.

So remember when you ask me how it is I do what I do and why I succeed when it appears I shouldn't and know it is not because I know things but because I took a chance and it worked out.

How Do Writers Create Real People In their Stories?





And Then Came This

Had this image of walking into The Shmata Queen's office unannounced to start an impromptu Hokey Pokey. Can't say for certain what sort of response this would drive so I would come armed with chocolate and or some other foods she enjoys.

But that is neither here nor there, just narishkeit. Instead what I want to focus on is asking you who read this to join me in a social media experiment.

Become a fan of this page.

And then I want You to put your right hand in, You put your right hand out, You put your right hand in, And you shake it all about, You do the hokey pokey. And you turn yourself around...

Enjoy that earworm for a bit and then go read these:

Nothing Makes Sense


Have you ever had a moment where you realize that nothing makes sense. One of those moments where you look around and wonder when that happen because it used to be that everything made sense and you can't figure out what changed.

Sure you can point at some pivotal moments and know they played a role but what really throws you is that it feels like someone flipped a switch because moments ago all was fine and now...it is not.

Maybe it is because for a long while life was like a dream and then it was a nightmare and then it turned into something else. Maybe when you go through something like that you can't help but be different when you come out the other side.

Maybe this sense of uncertainty is just part of adapting and adjusting to the new normal and given a little bit of time that switch will be flipped again and all will be good.

Or maybe it is just a lack of coffee in general.

Not Dead Yet

Been a whole slew of crazy things that have happened since I last updated this joint.  It is not an exaggeration to say I am not dead yet, c...