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Heart &Amp; Soul Of A Singer &Raquo; Success Interviews Step Into Their Shoes Eileen

Heart & Soul of a Singer

An artist is someone who has a special and unique connection to the inner self bringing to the world a deep emotional releasing that can be felt at the core. Madison Tayor powerfully expresses feelings and the relationship between the human experience and the unspoken parts through her lyrics and songs. She grew up with […]

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Mechanical Failure &Raquo; Notes To Self By Mark Obrien

Mechanical Failure

I don’t think I fully understood or appreciated the effect political correctness has had on language until I took my car to the repair shop one morning last week. Ernie, the service manager who wrote up my service order, told me he’d call to let me know what his team found, to get my permission […]

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Ideation Vs Ideology: Part Two &Raquo; Notes To Self By Mark Obrien

Ideation vs Ideology: Part Two

Some years ago, I wrote the first piece in what’s now, with the publishing of this piece, turned out to be a series. Who knew? A common expression says there are no guarantees in life. Since, as Grandpa O’Brien loved to say (among a million other things), “It’s the exception that proves the rule,” there […]

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Monsters &Raquo; Notes To Self By Mark Obrien

Monsters

In the October 2nd episode of my program, The Anxious Voyage, I welcomed a guest named John Tejada. After being imprisoned on a sexual-assault charge, John wrote the manuscript for a book called, Searching for Redemption. During our conversation, I told John I’m conflicted, torn between two points of view: On one hand, I believe […]

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Cosmic Discrimination &Raquo; Notes To Self By Mark Obrien

Cosmic Discrimination

Late last month, NPR ran a good news/bad news story online. The good news, according to the headline, was this: “An annular solar eclipse is coming to parts of the U.S. in October”. The story went on to specify: The moon will pass between Earth and the sun, treating viewers here on our planet to […]

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Myself And I &Raquo; Notes To Self By Mark Obrien

Myself and I

Because I love true crime shows, it should come as no surprise that I love the Oxygen True Crime channel. My favorite show on the channel is New York Homicide. I love New York cops just because I love the way New York cops talk. And even if the show were a waste of 59 […]

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Bureaucrap &Raquo; Notes To Self By Mark Obrien

Bureaucrap

Once a bureaucracy grows beyond a certain size, it exists only to sustain itself and to grow. No bureaucracy ever recognizes its inefficient dysfunction, nor do the people who serve it ever examine it, seek to improve it, apply logic and reason to it, or say no to it. If the people who suffer its […]

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Passion For Becoming A Singer/Songwriter &Raquo; Success Interviews Step Into Their Shoes Eileen

Passion For Becoming A Singer/Songwriter

Those close to us and many times the world, try to make us someone we are not. Artists are often told to get an education and get a “real” job, and their passion for music is frowned upon. Today’s interview is with Linda Marks, who faced these attacks on her desire to follow her natural […]

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First-World Problems &Raquo; Notes To Self By Mark Obrien

First-World Problems

Do you ever wonder how many people living first-world lives might be compelled to change their behaviors on any given day, all of those behaviors likely to be superficial or trivial? Me, too. The question occurred to me yesterday when I came across three things in my Apple News feed. For openers, we could have […]

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Cancel Culture? What Cancel Culture? &Raquo; Notes To Self By Mark Obrien

Cancel Culture? What Cancel Culture?

If you’re not yet convinced that climate-change alarmism is more about politics, wealth redistribution, power, control, gullibility, and ignorance than it is about climate (it is), maybe you should read this anyway, even if it’s just out of curiosity, be it morbid or idle: “Cancellations Start for John Clauser After Nobel Physics Laureate Speaks Out […]

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