by Andrew Tirado | Mar 23, 2023 | Uncategorized
In a recent blog post, I wrote the following: “Are you a glass half empty type of person or a glass half full one? Mentally, do you assume the best or the worst? Well, there’s a third, outside-the-box option, when you think about it, and one that squares with my mood... 
by Andrew Tirado | Mar 17, 2023 | Uncategorized
(Editor’s Note: Dear, dear reader. My advice to you is the same as it was as Andrew got a couple paragraphs into writing this morning: halt. There’s nothing to be gained by reading a word of it and plenty to be lost, chiefly, your valuable time. Andrew admitted that... 
by Andrew Tirado | Mar 13, 2023 | Uncategorized
Espresso and a pastry in Attigliano, Italy, in 2016 When I was perhaps in around fifth or sixth grade, my dad, Alonso Tirado, an offset printer who owned and operated a small print shop for decades, and my mom, Linda Tirado, who occasionally did typesetting for him,... 
by Andrew Tirado | Mar 3, 2023 | Uncategorized
Nate, Nan, me, Peter, Sophie, and Sophie’s then fiancée Erik at Ruby Beach, Washington, 2018 In the blog post I wrote yesterday, I talked about how I recently listened to a podcast consisting of speeches given under the general topic of personal development. One of... 
by Andrew Tirado | Mar 2, 2023 | Uncategorized
It’s 1:28 am, and I awoke this morning, March 2, 2023, mulling a subject that’s been rattling around my head of late, and one I thought I would spend some time considering on the printed page: that of consumption vs creation. Consumption and creation might be... 
by Andrew Tirado | Nov 16, 2022 | Uncategorized
It feels similar to 2012. Like the dawning of a new day. That was the year that art reentered the frame for me after nearly a quarter century of my keeping it at arm’s distance. I recall the feeling of liberation that I felt, those first days and weeks after the...
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