Category Archives: Writing

Top Ten ways to get defriended from Facebook

Posted on April 9, 2015 by Ron Giesecke

As it would turn out, my little poll/slash/experiment/foray into the psyche of vox populi yielded a plurality of votes for the Facebook Defriending option. I knew that was going to happen. Here’s why. Raging about my fellow man’s unwavering interest … Continue reading →

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Okay, so the Facebook barn-burner is going to wait until tomorrow

Posted on April 9, 2015 by Ron Giesecke

So here’s the deal.  I’m as needy, cloying, wheedling, annoying and beholden to a swift undercurrent of interpersonal histrionics as the next guy. Also, I want be seen. But really. This article is part of my crude attempt to get … Continue reading →

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Flannery O’Connor can wreck a perfectly good ape-suit caper

Posted on April 6, 2015 by Ron Giesecke

Leave it to my friend Steve to start me down Flannery Avenue this late in the game.  Officially, this is my first story of hers I have ever read.  I’m sure that is appalling to some, and I simply can’t … Continue reading →

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Update on my “fireside chats with successful people” idea.

Posted on April 6, 2015 by Ron Giesecke

   I Actually don’t intend to call it that–I mean why would I want to dump Franklin D. Out of his originality chair?  I unexpectedly got my first hit the other day–an email from an author whose work I am … Continue reading →

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Storming the castle–my first foray into Adobe After Effects

Posted on April 2, 2015 by Ron Giesecke

First off, watch this: This little “movie preview” had a two-fold purpose to it.  The first, was to do something cool for my very good friend, Tim, who is a Marine, and his little boy, Chace. Second, I needed a … Continue reading →

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Liebster Award: answered, and passed long

Posted on April 1, 2015 by Ron Giesecke

Okay, I’ve gone through the list of questions posed to me by Minah, at SeoSundays.  I say me, but really it was me, along with ten other bloggers.  That, of course is what I’m going to do here in a … Continue reading →

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The ever-sliding scale of traffic (also known as “This TARDIS is gratuitous”)

Posted on March 29, 2015 by Ron Giesecke

I’ve no idea how to even begin to parse the weekend traffic. Either Saturday is abysmal as a matter of form, or it is an atrocious statistical outlier.  But writing about GK Chesterton was supposed to cause at least a … Continue reading →

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Canonize Chesterton? Only if I can be there!

Posted on March 28, 2015 by Ron Giesecke

The other day, I read this fantastic rundown of Gilbert Keith Chesterton’s writing. I was reminded yet again why I love him so much–if Mark Twain and CS Lewis fell simultaneously into a hay-bailer, you’d get GK in a tight … Continue reading →

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Hopeless 

Posted on March 25, 2015 by Ron Giesecke

“Take a look out that window. Eden’s not burning. It’s BURNT.” —Reign of Fire Some years ago—actually probably 15 years ago, I heard the Reverend Larry Booker preach a message called “When I Was In My Right Mind.” In short, … Continue reading →

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Writing songs

Posted on March 24, 2015 by Ron Giesecke

I’m in a definite “place,” lately, with regards to the writing process overall. Five songs written in the last few months–which, for me has been staggering.  Writing for the blog? Well, that comes a little easier, but the process for … Continue reading →

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