Jeff's Jots

I have a confession to make. I don't know if I can do it. I'm just...just so...just so ashamed. I could barely admit it to myself let alone anyone else. But I can hold it in anymore, it's eating me up inside. I...I...I can't...but I have to...I...I washed my whites and colors together in the same... Sign in to see full entry.

My home state, Maryland, is having a debate about whether or not to allow slot machines at racetracks. The Republican Governor wants them the Democratic leader of the state legislature doesn't. So they are going to spend a lot of time and a lot of my money arguing over it. What I'm wondering is why... Sign in to see full entry.

"Good Luck." That's what almost all my former coworkers said to me last week as I was leaving my job to write full time. "Good Luck" many of them wrote in my goodbye card. I'm lucky, some of them said, to be able to leave my job to write full time. I'm here to tell you that luck has nothing to do... Sign in to see full entry.

It's official. For better or worse, I am now a full time freelance writer. Last Friday I walked out the door to my low-paying and stressful but safe and secure job with the Maryland State Government to try my hand at writing full time. I bring with me a gift for using words, a couple of recent... Sign in to see full entry.

Ever heard of Abraham? No, not Abraham Lincoln No, not the dude from the Old Testament. Abraham is the name of a group of nonphysical spiriutal teachers whose thoughts are channelled through a woman named Esther Hicks. I know what you're thinking. "Powers has really lost it now. He's written some... Sign in to see full entry.

I quit making New Year's resolutions about ten years ago. I realized that by making resolutions, all I was doing was putting more pressure on myself and adding more stress to my life. Since that time I haven't done anything in particular to mark the new year. Until this year. This year I am making... Sign in to see full entry.

I'm going to get myself in trouble with this one, but what the heck. Life gets pretty dull if you don't get in trouble now and then. I think it's time we stopped putting our soldiers on a pedestal and start thinking of them as ordinary citizens with a job to do, just like the rest of us. Whenever... Sign in to see full entry.

The words "faith" and "hope" are used together so often that it has become easy to think of them as interchangable. There is even a new TV sitcom called Faith and Hope. It's really kind of strange that we lump those two words together so easily. They're really opposites. Think about it. Say for... Sign in to see full entry.

I just wanted to offer my sincere thank you to the news media for saving me the trouble of voting in the Democratic primary in my state next year. It seems that the media has already decided that former Vermont Governor Dr. Howard Dean will be the Democratic nominee for president in 2004. Amazingly... Sign in to see full entry.

Are you a procrastinator? I hear a lot of you saying yes. Are you sure? The reason I'm asking is that I think a lot of us are too hard on ourselves when it comes to procrastination. We see ourselves as procrastinating when really, we aren't Okay so if you're in line at the post office to file your... Sign in to see full entry.