So you think you’re a writer?
Four years ago I took a month-long sabbatical to consider where to invest future energies. Great friends offered advice, shared their ideas, and asked me tough questions. One of the questions often asked was, “Why not…
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Recycling Junkyard
It’s hard to believe Junkyard Wisdom has now been online for five years! Over 500 posts, 300 pages, too many comments to track, and tens of thousands of visitors …. wow, never expected all that….
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Ember
My son has always been a tinkerer. We still laugh about his childhood dream of wanting to build an airplane in our backyard. I pointed out we had no tires for the plane to land…
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The Tension of Wealth and Poverty
One of the great things I’ve discovered about a blog is discovering the themes in my heart and mind. Different patterns become evident after four years of Junkyard Wisdom updates. Maybe patterns isn’t the right…
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Junkyard Planet
Despite the title of this blog, I did not grow up in an actual junkyard. It’s might be splitting hairs, but my family owned automotive dismantling centers (or simply wrecking yards). To most folks it…
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Support the Boring this Holiday Season
“….in this age of elites who delight in such phrases as “out of the box” and “killer app”, arguably the most coveted status symbol isn’t a yacht, a racehorse, or a knighthood; it’s a philanthropic…
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More is Less
Here’s a classic example of how Junkyard Wisdom precedes academic insight. A few years ago I read a marketing book that cited a Stanford University study. The Stanford researcher had gone to a high end…
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Best Looking Cars Ever?
A blog titled Junkyard Wisdom should post something about cars every now and then, don’t you think? I came across this article from Popular Mechanics and found it amusing. It’s a list of the top…
