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Ethan Holmes, Familiar Sayings
My name is Ethan Holmes and if you’ve ever read anything I wrote you already know I don’t have an ordinary or ‘normal’ viewpoint about many things. Personally I think ‘normal’ is overrated. I’d like to have a talk with … Continue reading
Ethan Holmes, Rambling Man
I was thinking the other day. I do that on occasion. Then I seem to take a few days off. Does an onion cry when you cut it? Does broccoli scream when you put it in the steamer? Are you … Continue reading
Social Networking and Ethan Holmes
Social Networking means you should ‘like’ me, ‘friend’ me, ‘pin’ me, ‘connect’ with me, ‘follow’ me and then let’s ‘twitter’ about it. I want you to go to my Facebook page right now and ‘Like’ me dammit! Or better yet, … Continue reading
Ethan Holmes and The Death of Customer Service
Please press one if you’d like to continue reading this blog. Please press two if you’d like someone to read it to you. Please press three if you forgot why you’re here. Please press four if you are never going … Continue reading
Scared is Scared of Things You Like
It is amazing to me how things come into my life every once in a while if I just ‘allow’ them. Remember the old saying; “out of the mouths of babes”? I finished and published my latest book recently, Live … Continue reading
An Aversion to Shopping
Ever since I wrote Live Your Life In A Crap Free Zone I’ve discovered I have an aversion to shopping. I know that women who own 127 pair of shoes and men who own every Ipod ever made won’t readily … Continue reading
The Tao of Success, Part 5; At This Moment
You’re driving to work one morning and you see a motorist standing by his disabled car on the shoulder of the road, kicking his flat tire and screaming at the car and his cell phone. His anger and frustration are … Continue reading
The Tao of Success, Part 4; Choose
“Alice came to a fork in the road. ‘Which road do I take?’ she asked. ‘Where do you want to go?’ responded the Cheshire Cat. ‘I don’t know,’ Alice answered. ‘Then,’ said the Cat, ‘it doesn’t matter.” ― Lewis Carroll, … Continue reading
The Tao of Success, Part 3; Patience
The mulberry tree grows and upon it grows the mulberry leaf. The mulberry leaf is consumed by the silkworm. The silkworm then spins silk. “With time and patience, the mulberry leaf becomes satin. With time and patience the mulberry leaf … Continue reading
The Tao of Success, Part 2; Stop Saying ‘I Want’
It’s one of the first phrases we ever learn to say. We start saying it almost as soon as we are able to speak anything resembling a language; I want. I want my toy, I want a bottle, I want … Continue reading
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