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Have you ever felt like you’ve spoken too soon? Perhaps you waited and waited for the right moment, but as soon as the words left your mouth, something happened that made them completely irrelevant?Well, it looks like I spoke too soon. Two nights ago, I blogged about not knowing my next steps. My contract assignment was coming to a close at the end of the week—of which I was actually grateful for multiple reasons—but I didn’t know where the next check was coming from to move forward and I […]

Life is all about chapters and eras. I think that’s how God designed our brains, so we can comprehend. Something begins, then it ends and another takes it’s place. Since we live in a linear universe, life must happen in a linear fashion. Yes, there can be overlap, but I think that most of us will agree that this is how life typically unfolds.I’ve been in a bit of a pensive mood all evening. A small chapter in my life—an interlude, if you will—is about to end and I […]

This time is different. Actually, that’s not true. It’s exactly the same as before, but now I’m the one that is different. Not much time passed, but I’m reacting differently than I did before. It’s not a matter of maturing, but of finally trusting God.When I went through my “month of sorrow” back in February, it was the first time I had experienced one great disappointment after another, just to encounter my first bout with homelessness and being on the verge of losing everything. It was natural for me […]

I would like to say first and foremost that I have found my nuts. Or rather, N.U.T.s. There are twenty of them. I’ll explain more briefly, but first I believe that I have mentioned before about my fondness for the blog The Art of Manliness. If not, well… I like it and you should to. Join the bandwagon. Resistance is futile.Anyway, AoM is currently going through a series titled “30 Days to a Better Man” and one of the recent articles was titled “Find Your N.U.T.s.” and it, moreso […]

It’s a quarter past 3:00am. I should have been asleep hours ago. Instead, I lie in bed with my iPhone in hand and my eyes wide awake. My body is still flowing with several large cups of iced tea, whose caffeine—which normally doesn’t affect me—is preventing me from finding my place of slumber.I’m too alert to fall asleep, yet too sleepy to do much else. Yes, I’m in the awkward land halfway between the hills of insomnia and the valleys of exhaustion. I’m surprised that I’ve even got enough […]

Something interesting happens when you’ve been to hell and back. Life challenges don’t impact you as much. When you rise above what beat you down, nothing looks big. You’ve overcome what broke your body and your spirit and you’ve healed into a stronger person. You look back on your circumstances and you see how God was there—even in the times you doubted and cried out at night—and suddenly nothing can scare you.As I mentioned previously, I am currently on a six week web development assignment. This is week four. […]

The time has come for me to write the most brutally honest blog of my life. I’ve been candid before, but never like this. I’ve alluded to this issue before in posts, but never come right out and admitted to it. This is an issue that plagues so many men. Many of whom don’t even see it as something wrong, yet it affects them in so many ways that they don’t understand. And now that I am choosing to discuss this topic and how it impacted my life, I […]

For the past couple of weeks, I have been working on-site for a company and assisting with their customer-facing websites. The only people there that know what I really do—develop and produce projects for film, television, and new media—are the two that hired me because I was honest about it during my interview. Aside from that, I’ve been quiet with it and kept it to myself. After all, that’s the professional thing to do.I guess that it doesn’t take much for people in Los Angeles to catch on, though. […]

When I wrote my latest blog entry, there was something that I forgot to mention. I’d like to attribute it to being tired and writing the post at midnight, but the truth is that I am simply a bad person and it slipped my mind. This is such a colossal slip-up that I’m probably going to hell for it.Okay… maybe not that extreme, but this is a biggie of a blunder. As I mentioned previously, February is absolutely terrible for me. Everything was crashing down and I was homeless, […]

Today was day one on a six week, on-site web design contract. It’s a gig that I didn’t think I was going to land, either. I went to the interview in my worn jeans, ripped sneakers, and faded fedora. Plus, when asked if I would want a full-time position down the road, should it be offered, I hesitated and was honest about my real profession and why I was in LA: to develop and produce television and animated content.So, I was a bit surprised when my creative staffing agency […]