MISTER FADED GLORY
I'd call this blog a "Critique of Life," except that sounds way too pretentious.
Watch for my first novel, These Monks, a comedy about friendship, frustration, and Des Moines, available later this year.
Email me: jjh(at)misterfadedglory.com.
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Category Archives: Adulthood?
How to Dig Out: 8 Steps for Email Overload
You’ve been there. We all have. After a week of rest and relaxation, you endure your last vacation night, a dreadful Sunday, with little sleep and a heavy heart. Your mind races with a forgotten to-do list, you’re haunted by … Continue reading
Posted in Adulthood?, Business, Productivity
Tagged 8 steps, corporate life, dig out of email, Email, excavation, overload, productivity, staycation, to-do lists, vacation, vacation comeback, Voicemail, workation
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The Moment: My Graduation Speech.
It occurs to me that I may never get to deliver a graduation speech. I sat through only one graduation this season, Washburn University Law School in Topeka, and suddenly, I realized, I may never get the call from my … Continue reading
Posted in Adulthood?, Ideas
Tagged Graduation, Indulgent, Simpson College, Speeches, The Preparation and the Moment
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Random: Colts’ holiday leftovers
So when you’re an adult, the holidays don’t just bring relief. Instead they bring a crushing swirl of frenetic activity, forcing professional, personal, social and familial worlds to collide. Pure madness. Which is why I can barely cobble together coherent … Continue reading
Christmas always gets a bad wrap
We’re all bad at something. For some of us, that’s no problem. We’re good at stuff, too. For example, I’m pretty good at Jeopardy. I mow a mean lawn. Sometimes I send my wife flowers that aren’t cheap, or free … Continue reading
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Tagged Christmas, Epic Fail, Franklin the Cat, Gift-Wrapping, Gifts, Holidays, Jack Del Rio, Ms. Faded Glory, Presents, Stupid, Tape, The Apprentice, Tree, Whiney wine, Wrapping
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Break time
Actually, I regret to inform you that it’s break time at Mister Faded Glory. I’m sure you care. In an obvious attempt to prove that I’m not a total pussy, my next few weeks will be spent painting the interior … Continue reading
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Back to work
In case you wondered, I am grumpy again today, and the root cause is totally obvious. Yesterday I wrenched my back, and threw it out. Ouch. All day today, I lied (laid?) rested supine on my couch in recuperation. Now, … Continue reading
And tonight we’re gonna party like it’s 1999. Wait, that was 10 years ago?.
Mister Faded Glory is back. Just in time for decades in retrospective and other such fodder plaguing our broadband, newsprint, and airwaves. Before we join the fray (Yes, of course we join the fray. My opinions matter! Read me at … Continue reading
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Slam dunked into the world of adult life
Well, Mr. Faded Glory gets to check another box off on his laundry list of adult tasks. As of today, Mr. and Ms. Faded Glory are the proud owners of a new house. And, yes, this (a) signifies some sort … Continue reading
Posted in Adulthood?, Realty
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Insomnia
What keeps me up at night? I’ve had insomnia for the better part of 20 years or so, reappearing in fits — often when spring approaches. I could perhaps make a circumstantial case blaming it on the weather. However, the … Continue reading
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