Thoughts
by Anthony Lawson on Mar 13, 2024
Is there such a thing? I could look it up I suppose. This morning I woke up early with the normal pangs of guilt that I feel pretty much daily and I came to the conclusion that it's the reason I'm plagued by wanting to help everyone somehow...
by Anthony Lawson on Feb 13, 2024
"What do you do?" I hate this question. I never know what to say. In fact, it bothers me so much that I may have already written a post about it but here's another one. This time, however, the thought took me in a different direction. Why do we ask that question? What are we even asking? Are we asking how the person pays their bills? Are we asking what the person is good at? What they enjoy doing?...
by Anthony Lawson on Feb 08, 2024
I'm starting to realize that I've been hobbling my dear wife. See what I did there? With the title and the photo? Clever, eh? Anyways...
by Anthony Lawson on Jan 21, 2024
In my latest newsletter, I mentioned something about always being behind schedule with production and a long time member of our little community sent an amazing article...
by Lisa lawson on Dec 31, 2023
Over a year ago, my daughter was leaving to head back to college. As we hugged goodbye, she whispered in my ear, “please don’t drink anymore mom, please stop drinking.”
Her words were the exact words I would say to my dad as a little girl, a teenager, an adult...
by Anthony Lawson on Dec 24, 2023
"Customers" isn't the right term. I also don't care for "clients". "Community" is more like it but that starts to sounds cultish. I'm struggling with what to call you guys because you've become more than "customers". Some of you anyway, the rest need to earn it...kidding...
by Anthony Lawson on Dec 18, 2023
One of the lessons from my dad that I'll never forget but, apparently, never listen to was "10-15 is the max". That was his sweet spot for making a product. Once he got to around a dozen or so, he'd get bored with the design...
by Anthony Lawson on Nov 15, 2023
One of the most interesting challenges we faced during our recent move was losing our daily routine. It's bizarre to me how thrown off you can be when you can't find the kitchen knives or your daily meals are all over the place...
by Anthony Lawson on Nov 14, 2023
Memory is funny. I have fond memories of Joshua Tree from my childhood but if I were really forced to sit down and hash it out, my sister and I were bored pretty much the majority of the time. I had a daily checklist I'd go through...BB gun, hang out in the gully, Lincoln Logs/army men and sometimes Peanuts puzzle...
by Anthony Lawson on Oct 05, 2023
There was a series called Northern Exposure in the 90's. I loved it. I love it. I just got Lisa into it. I was obsessed with the idea of living in Cicely, Alaska until I found out it was a fictional town...
by Anthony Lawson on Sep 22, 2023
Remember all of that hype about breathing and taking it all in stride I spewed yesterday? Well I've been awake since 2am stressed about this big move of ours. We head up today to get the keys and now it's real. So after an hour of laying and NOT breathing, I got up to let you know. It's not easy. This whole living thing is hard. That doesn't change but I sat and took some breaths and scrolled through some photos of our new town and I'm okay. Hopefully Lisa won't read this.Keep breathing.
by Anthony Lawson on Sep 21, 2023
Stop personalizing anxiety. I don’t recall how or if we talked about anxiety when I was younger but it seems the new trend is to personalize it. “My anxiety”. I hear this constantly now...
by Anthony Lawson on Sep 20, 2023
Bittersweet is probably the best word for it. I was born and raised in Southern California and Lisa has been here for the majority of her life (she was born in Northern Ca but moved here when she was four) but, the cost of living here has finally pushed us out...
by Anthony Lawson on Jun 22, 2023
Take any living mammal and put it in a box. Keep it in that box for 8-10 hours a day. you can let it out for an hour in that time period, if you choose but, what will most likely happen is it will decide to stay in the box and “relax”...
by Anthony Lawson on Oct 14, 2022
The second necessity in line. Water. You have about three days without this much needed element, and three miserable days they will be...
by Anthony Lawson on Oct 04, 2022
We are mammals. Hopefully that doesn't stir up controversy of any kind. More specifically, we are human mammals. And even more down to it...we are Homosapiens...
by Anthony Lawson on Jul 31, 2022
I love this coin because I love us. We all came from the same place and slowly branched away from one another creating a beautiful variety of us all over the globe. We are, and always have been, in a constant cycle of surviving, thriving and creating.
by Anthony Lawson on Nov 19, 2021
Remember when Black Friday was on Black Friday (the day after Thanksgiving)? It was a whole thing. Consumers waited patiently with bated breath.
Not too many years ago this slow burn started to happen. Some brilliant marketer decided to stretch the Black Friday to Cyber Monday (don't quote me...my memory is fuzzy).
Companies followed...
Two daughters of the step kind...
by Anthony Lawson on Aug 13, 2021
I've been a step father, for lack of a better term, for around 10 years now. Honestly, I didn't plan on that when I started dating my wife and I'm not really sure why. Probably some insight to my level of emotional maturity at the time. To be fair, they didn't consider me a step father so it was an easy conclusion for me. In the beginning, I was just a guy that was hanging around and taking that part of my duty with a grain of salt...
by Anthony Lawson on Jul 02, 2021
For years I've heard the United States referred to as a "melting pot". The idea being that it's made up of many different cultures blending as one. I never gave it much thought...
