“The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.”

~Benjamin Disraeli

Happy Deja Vuesday.

If there was a single instrument that has allowed my life to sound out in a different key, it is my Macbook.  I’ve never been fluid enough with my guitar for my fingers to know the strings without the constant prodding of my mind, but when my digits dance across the keys of my laptop, it’s as if they know their way independent of my brain.

Of course I’d worked on computers before, but nothing else had felt so natural.  The Macbook made me feel like I was flying.  My first purchase was shortly before Mia was born.  It aged alongside my daughter, though the years were far kinder to one than the other.  It was old before its time, and I never did much with it, save crash the hard drive and lose a broken heart’s worth of pictures.

It is certainly possible that a different line of bread crumbs would have led me here to Blogopolis anyway, but it is difficult to imagine that we would be wandering through this particular here and now if it hadn’t been for Daisy saying, “Here’s a Macbook.  Go Make Your Million.”

Writer Dad

Now I’m a dad and a ghostwriter for hire.