Last month, I orchestrated my own little experiment. I wondered what it would be like to leave all social media for an entire month and focus on “in real life” encounters with friends and family. I was not disappointed.

Tweet The great 18th century philosopher (and supporter of the American Revolution) Edmund Burke once said: “No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.” In recent weeks, several emerging stories on local, state & national levels have grabbed my attention.  Specifically, I have been closely following [...]

Tweet So Fresno, are you getting excited about Fresno State’s potential 2011 Fresno State football schedule?  How could you not?  We could be playing powerhouses like Utah State,  San Jose State, Idaho, New Mexico State and possibly UC Davis, Montana State, Sacramento State or even Cal Poly.  Yes, the landscape of college athletics is changing [...]

Tweet I am a huge fan of Walt Disney and especially his dream of Disneyland.  Because I am getting very excited for a trip this coming week I wanted to once again celebrate Walt Disney & his most famous creation with a series of videos that I had never seen prior to yesterday.  They are [...]

Tweet Last weekend I visited The Body in The Bog for the first time since it re-opened.  My good friend Zach Reinhold and I had a really nice visit with John O’Mara about beer and about how he got The Body In The Bog back. After the weekend I was thinking about how great it [...]

Tweet Its been nearly a year since I graduated from the Disney Institute in Orlando, Florida.  There I did some writing and I just stumbled upon this: Having a vision is important. Communicating your vision is more important. Walt Disney was a master storyteller. As great a visionary as he was, many would argue that [...]

Tweet Sometimes I miss it completely.  My life so full of so many things to do, meetings to attend, whining children.  The clutter is often times hard to overcome.  But then, when I least expect it, there it is.  Beauty. I have been thinking a lot about how it truly is all around us.  We [...]

Tweet Every once in a while I like to travel. Well okay, I love to travel. This weekend Erin and I were able to take a quick trip to San Francisco and we had a really great time. On the way up we stopped in Hilmar California. Hilmar, is where both of my parents grew [...]

Tweet Dear MindHub, Fresno is calling you to once again serve your community as the best place for community conversation. Our area is in dire need of a better space to discuss our ideas, knowledge and hopes as well as share our concerns and skepticism. Today, a group of friends and I who have used [...]

Tweet Yesterday, I began a small series of posts on community conversation.  If you missed my first blog post on the topic you can see it here.  Today, I want to write about Twitter and why in my opinion, it is not the best place for healthy community conversation. Most of my  friends and family [...]