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I just finished up a really great lesson. I've been learning how to play fingerstyle, or fingerpicking, guitar for about a week now and while at first I didn't have much confidence that I'd learn...

I'm always looking for new hobbies. I love hobbies. Especially ones that are designed particularly for men. There's a certain camaraderie that occurs when it comes to engaging in things that men...

A few years ago, I bought a Klein Tools electrical test kit that came with MM100 multimeter, a NCVT-1 non-contact voltage tester, and a RT100 receptacle tester. The non-contact voltage tester and...

Do you know what's been burrowing under my skin lately? It's the incessant complaining about how awful the year of 2020 was. Friends of mine as well as strangers near and far have claimed that...

I read tons of self help books and one of my all time favorites is Dale Carnegie's How to Win Friends & Influence People. My mother gave me this book back when I was in college and I've been using...

I've been playing guitar consistently for about four years now. I've gotten somewhat decent at playing a few things, but I wouldn't say I'm good by any stretch of the imagination. I'm not sure...

I have a quick question for anyone out there who was perhaps born and raised in the 1970s. Or maybe if you were a parent in the 70s and gave your child a car track for Christmas or a birthday...

There appears to be a whole lot of men out there on the internet who know nothing about women. I am a woman. I know this because I read a lot about these men, visit forums where these men...

I've recently been contacted by Guitar Tricks to participate in an interview for them. I just finished writing it out and I thought I'd share it here as well as send it back to them. Here goes...

I was talking to a friend the other day and somehow, the conversation turned to last names we wouldn't wish on our worst enemies. You know, horrible last names like Whitehead or Blackhead. Balls...

I remember high school well and I remember college well. All six and a half years of it. I attended four years of high school just like most other people, but after that, I went to community...

Tattoos have got to be stopped. I don't even know where to begin with this topic. The entire thing is becoming so annoying that I feel somewhat speechless. It's getting hard to think. Back when...

My husband and I took a drive to our local Dunkin' Donuts this past Friday night, just to get out of the house. We went down for a cup of coffee. Perhaps a latte. We drink coffee in the morning...

I have a question. A friend's son graduate from college about a month ago and I received an "announcement" in the mail a day or two ago. I opened the letter and read what it had to say. I said to...

I have got some absolutely horrible neighbors and I'd like some advice on how to deal with them. I read this really long post that offered some great ideas, but I'd rather create my own post here...

I think the time has come for me to offer my opinion on Guitar Tricks, the online guitar learning website. There are probably a zillion other reviews for this outfit floating around the internet...

Up until a few months ago, I had no idea what a "Karen" was. To me, it was a name of a friend of mine and the name of a few girls I went to school with. It wasn't until I watched the video from...

I have the odd feeling that I'm going to have swarms of loving mothers and fathers out there screaming and yelling at me. "Children absolutely do not ruin marriages, you fool!" They'll disagree...

I can't be the only one to fumble across tons and tons of horrible English spelling and grammar on the internet every day. I just can't believe that I'm alone in this. And to be completely honest...

I know this sounds terrible, but I can't stand it anymore. I'm beginning to think that the town I grew up in produced a bunch of nothings. Back when I was in high school (I'm in my 30s now), There...