About me - Donovan Baldwin

Donovan Baldwin is a Texas writer and a University of West Florida alumnus. He is a member of Mensa and is retired from the U. S. Army after 21 years of service. He has held several managerial and supervisory positions over the years. His interests are varied,

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Creative Writing > Memoirs Memoirs: My dog

It was 1994. I had just gone through a divorce after several painful and tumultuous years that had resulted in my becoming distanced from my children...or them from me. I had met and married a lady with two children...twin teenage daughters. She, and they, had been through their own trying period as mommy and daddy's marriag...

Relationships & Family > New & Old Friends Tips to help you meet people

If you are someone wishing you could find new friends, I have some good news for you, even though the fact that you are reading this means that you might not agree with me. There are millions of people who would really love to be your friend! I am assuming that when I use the term "friend", we both understand that a wide ran...

Creative Writing > Poetry Poetry: When you bury me

I will be neither dead nor sleeping, but will transcend, For I have chosen to become more than what any other man may be. I will be too small to be a god and too great to be a human So I will wander between two worlds wherever mortal remains reside...or in what state. When you bury me, it will be your choice of when, and whe...

Health & Fitness > Diet Tips Commonsense tips to lose weight

Here's a little statement I've made before in various forms and forums. Effective, lifelong weight loss is simple...not easy, just simple. Everyone is seeking the ultimate weight loss secret. However, the "weight loss secret" has been known for years. Simply stated, if you take in more calories than you use, you gain weight....

Health & Fitness > Healthy Living & Wellness Some easy ways to reduce stress

Just as with so many other things, people seem to try too hard and get "stressed out" when it comes to trying to reduce stress! When it comes to reducing stress, most people seem to want some sort of specific system, guidance, or what my wife calls a "recipe". They figure that someone will have to come along, take them by th...

Business > Small & Home Business Ideas for running a home business

"Eighty percent of success is showing up." - Woody Allen In their best selling book "Younger Next Year: A Guide to Living Like 50 Until You're 80 and Beyond", authors Chris Crowley and Henry S. Lodge echo that sentiment as it pertains to health and fitness. Chris often talks about how you have to "show up" for what is requir...

Politics, News & Issues > Climate Change A response to Al Gore's Film, 'An Inconvenient Truth'

In December of 2000, Al Gore conceded the election for President of the United States to George W. Bush. I won't go into all that led up to that event or all that followed. That's not what I want to talk about. However, as bad as the results must have seemed to Al Gore at the time, if ever one man's loss might have become a ...

Arts & Humanities > Writing Resources Finding writing inspiration: Lessons from accomplished authors

Many people watching a writer at work probably wouldn't even realize that he or she was actually working. While the physical act of putting words on paper or into a computer is easy to recognize as "work" one of the hardest part of any writer's task is not always coming up with the words to express an idea. For many of us, t...

Health & Fitness > Fitness & Exercise Tips Ways to make exercise part of your routine

The hardest part of making exercise a part of your routine is not going to be much different from making anything else you have not been doing a part of your routine. However, many people have a mental or emotional block when it comes to exercise. Like mathematics for many of us, or learning a foreign language, there is simp...

Business > Small & Home Business The benefits of starting a home business

1. FREEDOM: Wouldn't you like the freedom to pursue your own interests on YOUR schedule? Don't you wish you could say when your work day is going to start, and when it will end? And wouldn't it be great to take a day of when YOU wanted to...without asking anybody's permission? 2. FIRE YOUR BOSS: This would be great, wouldn't...


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