A personal notebook
Thoughts, notes, and ideas.
Writing about whatever I’m trying to understand.
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Day 56 – Privilege – On The Road To Mayor
I think you would have to be pretty tone deaf to not feel how lucky you are to get to spend time in places like: Yellowstone National Park Disney World The Outer Banks…
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Day 53 – What Is Freedom To You? – On The Road To Mayor
I got the opportunity, for the first time in my life, to see Mount Rushmore. Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, Roosevelt. It’s definitely worth experiencing. Actually, any national monuments are impressive. We’ve recently been over…
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Day 51 – Akron Artillery Fire – On The Road To Mayor
For 15 years of my adult life I’ve worked in marketing. A good marketer knows things like: Your strengths Your weaknesses (a lot about your weaknesses) Your insecurities Your fears Where you shop …
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Day 50 – Working Together – On The Road To Mayor
Doesn’t it seem odd to you that politicians can’t work together? Aren’t they the “leaders”? I’m pretty sure I’d get fired from any other job I worked at if I said, “Bob’s idea…
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Day 48 – Great Responsibility – On The Road To Mayor
It is very easy to blame all the country’s problems on our government officials. And in fairness they never take responsibility for anything that goes wrong. And they never ask us to do…
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Day 47 – Perspective – On The Road To Mayor
I’m writing this from Sparta Wisconsin. It’s about 600 miles from Akron. Last summer Rocky and I put together a plan to do the biggest vacation of our adult lives. We started putting a…
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Day 46 – The Voice of the People – On The Road To Mayor
We had a really great talk on Facebook today about what the focus of the campaign should be. A major focus for me is the ages old infrastructure of the 2 party system. …
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Day 45 – Death Panels – On The Road To Mayor
I finished up Mark Maron’s interview of Barack Obama today. Obama was talking about the importance of being succinct in politics. He said that it’s not that people can’t understand the complexity of…
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Day 44 – Mark Maron with Obama
I’m listening to a podcast with Barack Obama. He did an interview with Mark Maron. Mark is a comedian who does a podcast in his garage. This is interesting on many levels: Garage…
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Day 43 – PAARI – On The Road To Mayor
There are a lot of drugs being used in Akron. People that don’t use illegal drugs often have a disconnect with people that do use illegal drugs. It’s a pretty silly separation if you…
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Day 42 – ConnectHome – On The Road To Mayor
One out of every four people living in the U.S. dont have Internet at home. One in four. The White House wants to change this through its new ConnectHome initiative. Its mission: Every child…
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Day 41 – Change Is Upon Us – On The Road To Mayor
I know people don’t like change. It disrupts our lives. It’s uncomfortable. You never know what will happen on the other side. There’s no reason to change for change sake. But I’m here…