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Brian's Top Ten Lessons of 2018 & 2019 New Year's Resolution I have not written often in my personal blog in 2018, as I have been busy, and writing has been more on the professional side for the agency and clients, so the creative spark was not as easy.   Here we are at the end of 2018, and I wanted to share some thoughts, and my New Year's Resolution for 2019. 2018 was a good year for us in Austin.  We settled into a new home, have good careers, and are learning to appreciate all that Austin has to offer.  There are challenges as well, but as we start the New Year and another birthday has passed, I hope you enjoy my top ten thoughts and resolutions for 2019. Brian's Top Ten Lessons Learned in 2018: 1) Cats can be sweet and loving:   As many of you know, I have not been a cat person.  I usually sneeze up a hairball around them, and truthfully am still more of a dog person.  With Daisybelle by my side, it has been even more easy to be a d

So, I haven't written a blog in many months.   I have written a few pieces for the DeLaune site and helped with marketing content for clients but stepping up to my own plate and writing has been a challenge.   Not because I don't have anything to say, but more because I don't have a clear way to organize the thoughts about my life and the world around me, but it is time so here I go. To start it out, Donald Trump has turned out to be the president he promised he would be.   It may turn out that his bombastic tweets and statements were enough to scare the Korean peninsula to peace.   While at the same time it appears to be turning Syria into a war zone between Israel and Iran as compared to its own civil strife or the interference of the Russians.   He seems to believe his campaign promises were real, people elected him for them, and even if he doesn't understand why they are good or bad his job is to implement them.   I have also written in the past about

Spoiler Alert: This blog is about the movie, Call Me by Your Name This is a very interesting movie on many levels.  The scenery is divine I don't know exactly where they are but the scenery, the town and just the peace of it all seem quite magical.  Makes you want to dream of sneaking away to Italy and escape the hustle and bustle of everyday life. The movie is set in the early 80's.  A time when it was still unusual or hard for some to come "out" in most of the world including the USA.  Where common, even in big cities, was to live one life at work or with family and then escape to reality on the weekends.  Or maybe, sad to say as someone who came out in the 80's, the escape was being gay and true to yourself on weekends outside of the office and away from family. I wonder how the world sees the movie as Frank and I saw it differently.  See, Frank enjoyed the scenery and the younger man, Elio, but felt Oliver, the older American was not as beli