Author: Garrett Hines

Tending the Fire- 3 Ways to keep your creative fires burning during the holidays.

  The sun peeked over the horizon only seconds before Chirup the monkey woke from his tree top slumber.  Yawning widely and stretching his overly long primate arms, he sat for a brief moment watching the golden rays of morning bounce from cloud to cloud.  It was going to be a glorious day.  Chirup liked …

Make that Tissue Dance- Looking at the Bright Side of Being Sick.

   There was a time in the distant past where I’m confident my jokes were good.  Surely they rolled off the tongue and remained ever the eternal “earworm,” repeated by the hearer to whomever sauntered down the sidewalk.  Yet somehow, after the birth of my son, this gift for joke telling was replaced by the …

What are we doing here? 3 Reasons you should follow this blog.

There’s an old story out there about Rabbi Akiva walking home late one night.  The sun was setting low over the horizon and as dusk ushered in the night, the wise old Rabbi missed the turn home and eventually found himself standing in front of a large Roman outpost.  “WHO ARE YOU,” the centurion bellowed, …