Category Archives: Thoughts

Run, Write, Meditate, Create, Repeat

These four activities along with a healthy dose of the newest music have kept me happy and sane this past week. On Thursday I will return to Philadelphia for a week of web workshops, viking ship parades, more web building, baseball games, job searching, art making and dancing dancing dancing.
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Multi-Tab Mozilla Morning

Ah the weekend after having the week off from work. How do these days feel longer even though I got out of bed even later than usual. 40 degrees cold out. Need to motivate for a mile and three quarter run. Big plans for this site. Burn it down and build up again with a [...]
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Experience, Strength & Hope

I recently celebrated my 6 month anniversary of sobriety on March 1st. I was apprehensive at first about sharing my substance abuse experience. I know that my sobriety is the reason that I have found the time and clarity to begin building this website and share my thoughts. After reading these posts you may want [...]
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Double Rainbow Reuse

I was in the middle of recounting my experiences from yesterday while attempting to resolve my anxiety about the pending day of full on activities when I received a text. My brother Trevor leaves this morning to serve our country in Afghanistan. Pride. Fear. Hope. Anger. Sadness. He is committed to this service which helps me accept [...]
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Getting The Worm

Woke up at 5am, started working at 6am. Attempting to follow my super friend Olivias doctor’s hours. Destroying some grammar rules in the process. Freelance discipline. Balancing blog updates with paid work. Also noticing that as soon as I started blogging and commenting, the spam came quick. No pun intended but “How do people actually make [...]
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Running On Empty

I woke up today with anxious thoughts. As a freelance designer, my work day feels like it starts once I leave the bed. I feel these need to immediately sit in front of the laptop and put in some work before I can feel calm. That open laptop often creates many more layers of anxiety. I [...]
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Wondering & Working

I registered aryon.com over 10 years ago. My initial excitement with owning my own domain was crushed by having to build a website that best reflected my life and abilities. Static sites were built and neglected, dynamic sites were attempted and abandoned. I always got lost in the planning and design process. My new approach is [...]
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