As a kid growing up in school, I never fancied myself as much of a writer. I mean I could be grammatically correct but my desire to write was pretty much non-existent. Over the years I have been encouraged to write many times. For a while…
Subtitle: Short Cuts and Cheap Things If you are like me, you have most likely tried to take short cuts to save time or bought something cheap to try and save money. Every cheap car, tool, shoe, etc that I have ever owned has cost me…
Sometimes when I get on the bike I just want to ride. I don’t want to go too far and I don’t want to go too fast. Sometimes just being out there is good enough. It is a time for me to pray, meditate and in…
My father was a logger and a farmer. He grew up on a family farm and it was in his blood. You could say that logging was just another type of farming, harvesting trees as the crop. When I was growing up we had many gardens. …
I really debated with myself about writing this article as I don’t like politics or taking sides. If you’ve read “I Am Neither” (https://www.andrew-baldwin.com/2019/04/08/i-am-neither/) you know that I believe in being American, not being a party affiliation. That being said, let’s give this issue a whirl.…
AS a kid growing up seeing a lot of wildlife was somewhat a rare occurrence. I can never recall seeing any wild turkeys or foxes or coyotes and not that many deer either. I lived basically out in the middle of nowhere so seeing wild critters…
WE were not an affluent family when I was a small boy. Toys were few and far between and most of our fun was had by using our imaginations and playing outside in nature. There was a pond behind the house complete with frogs and a…
I love technology. At least most of the time I do. And I hate technology just as much. Technology is at its best when it serves us. When it is at its worst, we serve it. We become slaves to our computers, our smart phones, our…
Sometimes when people ask me what I do for a living, I say that I am a technologist. It is kind of an odd term but fits me pretty well. I have made a career out of being on the leading edge of technology since I…
If there is one thing you should know about me, it is that I am self-employed. Taking days off is a hardship because when I don’t work, I don’t get paid. The result is that sometimes I don’t take vacations for years. Yes, years. The last…