by Phillip | Dec 2, 2015 | Holidays
Why I'm Wishing You a Happy Holiday It's Not Me, It's You Happy Holidays! Merry Christmas! Happy Hanukkah! Happy Kwanza! Happy Festivus! Whatever the hell it is that you celebrate, I hope you enjoy it. The War On Christmas marches on in 2015, with fewer and fewer...
by Phillip | Oct 26, 2015 | Life
Keeping Up by Phillip Holland I’m tired of birthdays. It’s all Facebook’s fault. Don’t misunderstand. I love my friends. I love celebrating with them. I know what a blessing it is to wake up each and every day. When we’re young,...
by Phillip | Apr 26, 2015 | Personal Development
Growing up, I remember that adults referred to every single drug by one name – dope. Marijuana, cocaine, ecstasy, heroin, LSD – all dope. It drove me mad, because it sounded like they equated the act of smoking one joint with being a meth head. Why...
by Phillip | Apr 12, 2015 | Personal Development
At the ripe age of 34, I feel like I have enough life experience to have something worth looking back on. Certainly, I’m not writing memoirs or imparting life lessons to the youth yet, but I’m over the humps of the reckless abandon of childhood, the blind...
by Phillip | Aug 9, 2014 | Change
“Bob? He’s doing great now. He finally made the changes he needed to make in his life. He had to – he hit rock bottom. His addiction nearly killed him, but after losing his house, car, job, and family when his wife couldn’t take it anymore,...
by Phillip | Aug 4, 2014 | Work
You can call me anything, but don’t call me predictable. Friends, about 2 months ago, while talking to longtime friend Aaron Specht, I floated an idea his way. (For those that don’t know, I met Aaron years ago when he was a bartender at Solera with me)...
by Phillip | Aug 1, 2014 | Health
Please note: ^This is not me. Last night, I completed my first CrossFit on-ramp training module. 6 classes over a 2 week period, with each class featuring instruction on the basic series of exercises involved in CrossFit and ending with a WOD – or Workout Of...
by Phillip | Jul 26, 2014 | Writing
Two and a half years ago, I quit my job at an intellectual law firm. The plan, as detailed in a previous blog post, was to provide social media marketing services for local small businesses. Things did not go according to plan. This was both a good thing and a bad...
by Phillip | Mar 28, 2012 | Movies
*Note: I’ve been holding onto this one because I didn’t want to post them out of order. But its taking me forever to watch the next movie, so I figure I’ll just post this one and move along. Bringing Up Baby (1938) was apparently a box-office flop....
by Phillip | Jan 3, 2012 | Work
Well, by the time this post goes live, I will have done something semi-revolutionary (for me): I quit my job! Now, unless things went worse than expected, I’m probably still employed. I’ve never NOT given a two week notice, and this is no...
