Writing from the Heart with Brian
Think, Laugh, & Cry Each Day
It’s an established fact. My dog Nittany is crazy. I’ve written often over the years about how Nittany, our 14-year-old Lhasa Apsa – Bichon Frise, has lost her mind. She loves you one minute, licking your hands and cuddling as close as she can get, the next minute she'll stare right through you like you're... Continue Reading →
A few weeks ago, I found an old journal from close to 40 years ago, from when I was in college, and read an entry where I mentioned that I had an exam the next day in my Economics class. The day's events came rushing back to me. I was worried about how unprepared I... Continue Reading →
(A version of this story ran in February 2016.) When I first started writing this blog in 2015, I learned that it was different from anything else I had tried in the past. I jotted down a few of those lessons in 2016 and they still hold true today. Let me know what you think.... Continue Reading →
We live in an "all or nothing, I'm right and I need to be heard" society. However, some of the most important truths in life are contradictory. They seem like impossibilities, yet experience proves them to be obvious over and over again. Of course, I have to point to the George Carlin’s treatise on The Modern... Continue Reading →
I'm breaking my word. I promised myself that I would post just three days a week this year. Here I am barely three weeks into the new year and I'm posting an extra day this week. It gets better. I've long made it a goal to stick with writing about the human condition, the situations... Continue Reading →
Happy New Year! When I decided to go back to college and earn my master's degree in the early 2000s, I remember laughing out loud at the goal. It seemed so brazen and outlandish. I had a demanding job and three small kids. My wife and I were already busy, how would I ever find... Continue Reading →
We're days away from the new year: Are you a resolution-making person? Do you have your resolution for 2024? I've never been one to set a lot of resolutions, mainly because I'm not great about seeing them to fruition. Here today, gone tomorrow. What I do like to do though is to think about the... Continue Reading →
I tweaked my back the other day and was floored. I tried to lift a Christmas box in our basement, heard a crack in my back, and instantly fell to the ground with deep spasms of pain streaking across my lower back. Um, help. If I was in an old western movie, I would've told... Continue Reading →
Most people hate the sound of their own voice on audio recordings. I learned this several years ago when I was occasionally asked to line up guests for a podcast one of my former employers used to run. I would help out by approaching people to be on the podcast and mocking up questions that... Continue Reading →
Writing from the Heart with Brian 
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