Ruben Avila - Digital Strategist
Sacramento, CA
By Ruben Avila · · @RubenEAvila
Man, do I love me some gardening. It is quickly becoming one of my most rewarding activities. I now have some reason to recall what we learned in 9th-grade biology. Holy smokes, I just remembered my teacher’s name! Thank you, Mrs. Ruedas for doing the lawd’s work. This is my ever evolving growing guide for gardeners wondering how to grow organic peaches at home.
Peaches are a perfect crop to grow in Sacramento.
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Sometimes, my brain goes numb… I don’t have a particular drive to do something, nor do I have any one actionable though percolating in my mind. When that happens, it’s difficult to write.
[Read more…]Writing about a writer’s block is better than not writing at all.
Charles Bukowski
By Ruben Avila · · @RubenEAvila
He was at a fork in the road.
He knew the decision he was faced with would impact this new nation in infinite ways. However, he didn’t know that it would impact the entire world, the human race, and echo in time for eternity.
The decision was simple – to rule or to galvanize this nation under the ideal under which it commenced.
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During my stay in business school, a recurring theme was to ensure our writing was clear and concise. Most professors focused on concise. If you can condense an essay to a paragraph, do so. If you can condense a paragraph to a sentence, do so. If you can condense a sentence to a single word, do so. At some point, you begin to question, “fuck, do I even need to communicate anything at all?”
Okay, maybe I got carried away with that. But, Scott Adams has some tips for writing that are timeless:
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I came across this new writing trend called, “morning pages.” Essentially, it’s a practice where you sit down every morning and write whatever comes into your mind, unadulterated, until you have three full pages. There are plenty of people who are jumping on this bandwagon. And, with good reason.
To state it bluntly – writing regularly is good for you.
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I have been blogging since 2003. My first foray into blogging was in the form of silly posts I made on the defunct ancient social media website Myspace. I had not heard of term blog, blogging, or blogger. Yet, I started to actively blog all the same.
I discovered two things during those days: 1 – I enjoyed sitting down and giving life to my internalized monologue via digital publishing, and 2 – I enjoyed the feedback from people reading my words and sharing their thoughts on said words.
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The 2020 election is set to be a very interesting event.
Kamala Harris’s record as attorney general of California has come under scrutiny since she announced her presidential run, especially after Harris went after former Vice President Joe Biden on racial issues in the last debate. Gabbard had said Harris falsely called Biden a racist, and that Harris was not fit to be president.
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