Do Not Expect

Sometimes life has some really ingenious ways of surprising you – maybe “startling you” captures the effect more aptly. You think you have some idea of where things are going, who you’re going with, and why you’re going at all… then, things change. Your life gets a new direction, your companions abandon you – some others come out of the woodwork – and you have completely new motivations for doing anything....

October 1, 2008 · 1 min · Andrew D. Anderson

Hillary Clinton...

“Only a new president can renew the promise of America — the idea that if you work hard you can count on the health care, education, and retirement security that you need to raise your family. These are the basic values of America that are under attack from this administration every day,” [Hillary Clinton] said. here Alright, frankly, I am not a huge fan of politics. I don’t involve myself too often because it makes me sick....

January 20, 2007 · 3 min · Andrew D. Anderson

Rules...

I am not a fan of rules. This is of course, not to say that I am against the concept of “right and wrong”. Quite the contrary, as a matter of fact; I view the two as distinctly different. The earlier is conformity thrust upon a group; the latter is a moral decision – very individual at that. I thought I was upset today by rules. It turned out I was upset by the mindlessness of the enforcement....

February 24, 2006 · 1 min · Andrew D. Anderson