I’ve been in the internet marketing industry for almost 4 years. When I first started, I knew little about what went on in the back end of the interwebs and how it could affect people. A lot has happened since then. I graduated college, got a job as a marketing...
When I was selling pest control, we would take a break in the middle of the day for a lunch break. We would choose a restaurant where all of us could hang out for an hour or so and get some grub before starting to knock doors in the evening. At the beginning of the...
Dairy cows aren’t sad or angry at humans mainly because they don’t have human emotions. Only humans have human emotions. Hard to fathom, I know. Human emotions wrote this piece about giving up milk and how terrible dairy cows (and by extension, all farm animals) have...
This was a talk I gave around Father’s Day near San Jose, CA when we lived there for a short time. Hopefully I’ll be able to add to the Spirit that we’ve been able to feel today so far. I would first just like to publicly thank each of you for being so welcoming to...
Growing up on a farm, I was able to see the planting, growing, and harvesting of a variety of different crops. Wheat, potatoes, beans, corn, peppermint, sugar beets, and alfalfa made every summer a torture for my trusty shovel and me. As we worked, I saw a very...
The 9 year-old me walked through the front door on a sunny May afternoon, tired from a long day at school. Dad also walked through the door. “Did you get the chickens fed?” he asked. Feeding the farm fowl was one of many dreaded chores that plagued my childhood....