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Monthly Archives: January 2009

Hope for the dark times

By Rhett Soveran | Published: January 28, 2009
We have—apparently—entered into some pretty dark times. I mean, we all generally (hopefully) have what we need and more to survive. But times are tough. For instance, we have a government without a plan to spend a lot of money. How do you develop a plan for something you are ideologically [...]
Posted in Audio & Video | 4 Comments

The Standard Questions

By Rhett Soveran | Published: January 27, 2009
For every age there are a set of standard questions that you are asked. When you are little, because adults (having given up their child-like spirit) don’t know how to relate to you, they ask—did you have fun? And that, perhaps, is a fair question. You say yes and maybe mix in [...]
Posted in Featured | 16 Comments

This ones for Dougy

By Rhett Soveran | Published: January 15, 2009
There’s always something going on. There’s never not anything (I am a writer). Don’t you just wish, for once, that nothing was going on. Nothing to worry about. For the last couple of months, I certainly have. As you likely know, I have had my share of ups and downs over the [...]
Posted in Featured | 12 Comments

Where are you going?

By Rhett Soveran | Published: January 14, 2009
Well, lately, I’m going nowhere. I just realized it the other day. Somehow, without really thinking, I settled into a nice modernist frame of thought. I am talking about science. I started believing in progress. I started to think we knew it all. Nothing left to discover. Stick [...]
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Alright, I’m here

By Rhett Soveran | Published: January 13, 2009
Yeh, yeh 2009, hold your horses. I am back. I have arrived. Fashionably, or maybe not, late. 13 days into 2009 feels pretty good so far. For the first time in my life I was excited to go back to work. If that’s not a way to measure job [...]
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