jrdreistadt
The Epiphany
Once you experience an epiphany, there is no going back. So it was when I realized that my emotional difference was an integral, and...
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jrdreistadt
- Aug 10, 2015
- 4 min
Bat Out of the Belfry
I was recently looking through a three ring binder in my attic for a document that I thought might be helpful to a coworker who, just the...
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jrdreistadt
- Jul 29, 2015
- 2 min
Seasonal Sensitivity
I can remember a time when, at about 12 years of age, I walked through the snow in bare feet. For fun. I loved the feeling of the crisp...
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jrdreistadt
- Jul 2, 2015
- 1 min
Who Am I To Save The World?
As a naive young college graduate in the late 1990s, I can remember actually telling people who interviewed me as I embarked upon a...
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jrdreistadt
- Jun 30, 2015
- 2 min
Forager, Farmer, Fool
About 13 years ago, a good friend told me that I should just do one thing if I wanted to be successful. As I approach my 40th birthday,...
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jrdreistadt
- Jun 11, 2015
- 2 min
Interconnected Self-Sufficiency
The concepts of interconnectedness and self-sufficiency may, at first, seem incompatible. Interconnectedness implies that all living...
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jrdreistadt
- May 28, 2015
- 2 min
Bibliophilia
I love to read. An early precocious reader, I worked my way through chapter books in kindergarten and by the end of elementary school,...
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jrdreistadt
- May 13, 2015
- 1 min
Excuse My Vulgarity
I recently met someone whose perception of the proper intersection of authenticity and propriety was skewed slightly differently than...
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jrdreistadt
- May 11, 2015
- 2 min
Procrastination
My life has been a series of unfinished projects. Yes, I have seen many books, reports, home repairs, and other projects to their...
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jrdreistadt
- May 7, 2015
- 2 min
Choices and Consequences
When watching CBS Sunday Morning on, when else, a Sunday morning, I learned that more video is uploaded to YouTube every minute than I...
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