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ericvancewalton (79)in #finance • 23 hours ago
My Little Bitcoin Experiment (DCA-BTC-ASAP)
Around the turn of the new year I mentioned in one of my blogs that I was going to start flipping my credit card cash rewards and begin dollar cost averaging those rewards into…
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ericvancewalton (79)in #story • 3 days ago
Sunday Meditation Series: What Ripples Am I Sending Out into the World?
“The fact that you can think, the fact that you can read this book, the fact that you are able to reason in and out of situations—all of this is what gives you the ability to…
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ericvancewalton (79)in #technology • 4 days ago
Cooked: Why My Love Affair With Apple Is Coming to an End
I’ve lived inside the walled garden that is the Apple ecosystem since 2009, when I got my first iPhone. Coming from a first-gen Motorola Razr, the iPhone felt like something…
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ericvancewalton (79)in #story • 5 days ago
Spreading My Wings
As I shared in my recent post, New Year, Old Goals I’m looking to breathe new life into my writing career in 2025. To remain still and stagnant isn't really living after…
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ericvancewalton (79)in #poetry • 6 days ago
Confidence Game (An Original Poem)
I don’t belong here— not in this house with its chandelier glow, its velvet quiet, its rooms I’ll never know. Once, we rationed heat like a secret, counted coins like…
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ericvancewalton (79)in #fitness • 8 days ago
Staying Fit After Fifty - The War Against Gravity and Complacency
My father instilled discipline and fitness into my daily routine long before I was a teenager. As a child, I was skinny and sickly, but thanks to him, I turned things around. I…
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ericvancewalton (79)in #tesla • 10 days ago
When Hate Goes Mainstream. What It Feels Like Driving a Tesla Today.
I instantly became a fan of Tesla after I took my first test drive of the Model 3 in the spring of 2019 . After experiencing how technologically advanced the car was and how…
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ericvancewalton (79)in #poetry • 11 days ago
Sitting With the Sun (An Original Poem)
Sitting with the sun, half-afraid that idleness, it has finally gotten the better of me. But then the breeze, gentle as a whisper, brushes my face, pulling me back to…
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ericvancewalton (79)in #story • 14 days ago
Fool's Spring (among other things)
When we woke up yesterday it was in the mid-forties and this morning we were greeted by this… I don’t know about your part of the world but March in Minnesota is…
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ericvancewalton (79)in #story • 18 days ago
The Age of Distrust
They say cynicism is the worst disease of old age, and I don’t disagree. Viewing the world through a lens of distrust is extremely corrosive. It’s a philosophy that locks us into…
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ericvancewalton (79)in #memoirmonday • 20 days ago
Memoir Monday #52 FINAL PROMPT (3/3-3/9) - Describe a Typical Summer Day When You Were Ten Years Old
For our last and final prompt, you'll leave future readers of your online memoir with a snapshot of a world long past—offering them not only a fresh perspective but also an opportunity to reflect on their own lives and times. *Please feel free to continue to answer any of the prompts you've missed along the way. There are no time limits. I've carefully chosen each of these 52 prompts in an attempt to provide people on Hive who want to write their own memoir an easy way to do it.*
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ericvancewalton (79)in #poetry • 24 days ago
A Life To Love (An Original Poem)
Chasing moments, a tender spirit drifts through the tempest, longing for a day when that unsettling feeling leaves them— sacred whispers of a soul unbound, where…
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ericvancewalton (79)in #story • 25 days ago
The Book Nook, a Massive ETH Hack, and a Looming Decision
The Book Nook is now officially "Open for Business"! After a total of about five hours of work over the last week I’m happy to report the book nook is officially done! This…
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ericvancewalton (79)in #memoirmonday • 27 days ago
Memoir Monday #51 (2/23-3/2) - Write about a moment in your life when you stood at the edge of a choice—two paths diverging, each pulling at your heart in different ways*.
Perhaps it was a goodbye you didn’t want to say, a risk you weren’t sure you could take, or a quiet sacrifice no one else noticed. Describe the weight of that moment: the sounds that filled the air, the tremble in your hands, the unspoken words caught in your throat. Reflect on who you were then, what you felt you had to lose, and how that choice echoes in the person you are now, years later, as you sit with this memory.
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ericvancewalton (79)in #story • last month
New Year, Old Goals
As I think back to my early writing days I can remember a lot of authors who provided me with inspiration. James Thurber was perched high atop that list. There were a lot of…
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ericvancewalton (79)in #memoirmonday • last month
Memoir Monday #50 (2/17-2/23) - What Sign(s) from the Universe Did You Totally Ignore at First? How did you finally “get the message”?
What Sign(s) from the Universe Did You Totally Ignore at First? – Write about a time when the universe sent you an obvious message, but you were too busy, skeptical, or stubborn to catch on—until it practically hit you over the head. Did your GPS take you in circles? Did a fortune cookie give eerily specific advice? How did you finally “get the message”?
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ericvancewalton (79)in #ai • last month
Navigating the World After Artificial Superintelligence is Achieved (Spoiler Alert: It's coming sooner than you think.)
Mark my words—one morning, very soon, we’ll all wake up and go about our routines as if it’s just another day. But beneath the surface, something monumental will have shifted. Overnight, artificial intelligence will have quietly surpassed the smartest human minds on the planet—its collective knowledge and reasoning ability leaving us in the dust. And most of us won’t even realize it happened.
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ericvancewalton (79)in #memoirmonday • last month
Memoir Monday #49 (2/10-2/16) - What Do You Miss About the Pre-Pandemic World?
Wow, only three more prompts left! I couldn’t let Memoir Monday go by without the opportunity of addressing the most life-changing event of our generation, the Covid-19 Pandemic. I think most of you will agree that absolute everything is different now. It was an interesting thought-exercise to consider everything I miss. What do you miss? The answer to this question will surely open a flood-gate of memories and some mourning for the world that we’ve lost. More importantly, your answers to next week’s Memoir Monday prompt will serve as a bellwether to future generations. This is something we didn’t have the luxury of. There weren’t many persional accounts of the Spanish Flu Pandemic that survived. Let’s make sure this isn’t the case with the Covid-19 Pandemic. Share your thoughts, memories, and feelings.
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ericvancewalton (79)in #story • last month
Breaking Bread
The long, cold winters of America’s Siberia, otherwise known as Minnesota, offer plenty of time to hunker down indoors, pick up new hobbies, or revisit old ones. Lately, I’ve…
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ericvancewalton (79)in #story • last month
Storied Boroughs (An Original Poem)
A world shaped from shadows and dreams, by grifters and calloused hands -- Gotham. A city born of steel and backroom deals, where echoes of footsteps linger longer…
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