The time has come for me to join my wife in Pittsburgh. A year ago, I blogged that my wife was moving to Pittsburgh because she got a job with Google. We made the difficult decision that I would stay in Florida for two reasons: My job was pretty awesome and I wanted to take […]
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Unbowed, Unbeaten, and Alive
August 24, 2013 
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My Scar my scar – etiolate; but my vigor remains I stand unbowed, unbeaten, and alive © Ron Sparks, 08/24/13 Over 41,000 people in the United States will be diagnosed with oral cancer in 2013. That’s a lot of people and we’re now finding out that one of the leading causes of oral cancer, in addition […]
Continue reading How to be a Jerk
October 30, 2012 2 Comments
Sometimes I can be a real jerk. I am not proud of myself right now. I did something I find personally despicable and I can’t, for the life of me, understand why I did it. In a thoughtless moment, I responded to a situation in a callous manner. I treated another human being poorly. Here’s […]
Continue reading Why I Won’t Be Voting for Phil Diamond for Mayor of Orlando
March 13, 2012 11 Comments
See this man featured here? That’s Phil Diamond. He’s running for Mayor of Orlando. And he’s my next door neighbor. Literally. His house is right next to mine; less than 25 feet separate our houses. He has spoken less than 25 words to me in the two years I have been living next door to him. The […]
Continue reading Casey Anthony: Justice Was Served
July 6, 2011 7 Comments
The public outrage over the acquittal of Casey Anthony has me, frankly, perplexed. I have been monitoring all the social streams, Twitter hashtags, Facebook conversations, and news outlets and the public is universally upset at the verdict. Why? The case against Casey was built entirely on circumstantial evidence. Let’s think about that. There was no […]
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The Binary Biker 