Pay attention to the welfare of your innermost being,for from there flows the wellspring of life. Proverbs 4:23b (The Passion Translation) I’m concerned about something that may be coming at us over the next few weeks. Yesterday, a stranger I follow on Twitter solely for fantasy football insights reteweeted the following: Social media is a […]
Paul Harvey pulls his long overcoat around him and buttons the top button as his two companions shiver in the cold beside his car. It is nearly 1:00 a.m. on February 6, 1951, and the temperature is below freezing and dropping rapidly. The three had rendezvoused in Chicago at midnight as planned, ridden together in […]
A brief follow-up to the previous post. A research study had a group of people quit Facebook for a season and studied their lives. Spoiler alert: They got happier. Here’s the article.
I “unfollowed” about 100 good, smart people this weekend. Allow me to explain. I joined Twitter back in August of 2008, when the relatively new platform was just beginning to gain traction. That was early enough that I was able to register my own name (@DavidHolland) as my Twitter handle—as opposed to something like @DashingDallasDave77 […]
Today the nation marks the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday. For some federal and state workers, this means a day off. For many on social media, it means a cue to virtue signal by trotting out a well-known MLK quote. A couple of snippets from the well known, “I Have a Dream” speech will […]
I’ll share some thoughts about this shortly.
Dear family & friends, We got a wave of great early Christmas presents this year. Among them, the news that Our Grayson and Jose are expecting (it’s a girl!). Even better, they’ve decided the little lady should be born a Texan. So they just moved here from Miami (yesterday!). The move was a leap of […]
I wish I could time travel. I’d go back ten years and tell my year-2007 self that in 2017: Donald Trump is President; Tim Tebow is a professional baseball player; and Gwen Stefani and Blake Shelton are a thing . . . Just to see the look on my face.
Found this fascinating: Doomsday Prep for the Super Rich Snippet: How did a preoccupation with the apocalypse come to flourish in Silicon Valley, a place known, to the point of cliché, for unstinting confidence in its ability to change the world for the better? Those impulses are not as contradictory as they seem. Technology rewards […]
Mike Pence will be President before 2017 comes to a close.
