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Neptune (Song)

December 3, 2023 Mike Doria 0

Neptune’s backstory is packed with a lot of symbolism and circumstance that would take me way too long to connect for you here. I’ll give you the cliffs. notes version. I wrote this song while living in Fort Myers, Florida. [More]

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App Review: Dice Wisdom

August 9, 2021 Mike Doria 0

When the intersection of technology and (fill in the blank) meet, I’m always excited.  But when the (fill in the blank) is spirituality and mysticism, I’m next level giddy.   The app store is littered with hundreds of productivity tools, [More]

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Can You Spare Me Some Change?

July 29, 2021 Mike Doria 0

Don’t answer that.  While I certainly would love for you to spare me some change,  the question in the title is both rhetorical and a literal literary device called a creative play on words.  Who knows, this might even be [More]

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X, Y and Why

June 15, 2021 Mike Doria 0

A Play on Words While being interviewed the year after comedian Kathy Griffin held a fake, severed Donald Trump head in a photo, she gave a very decisive and powerful response to the reporter’s final question.  While I don’t remember [More]

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Where the Fox Mike Doria Been?!

February 24, 2019 Mike Doria 0

C’mon, that’s a funny headline!  I went back and forth on whether to keep or change it fearing it might a little immature.  But, I’m a writer, anything less would be dismissive, and I don’t attach substandard to my name. [More]

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PERSONALITY SPEAKING

February 3, 2019 Mike Doria 0

A few years ago, I happened to be at a men’s retreat sitting inside a small workshop that was detailing the 16 different personality types categorized by Katharine Cook-Myers and Isabella Briggs.  It’s better known as the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator. [More]

Coming of Age…Again!

December 31, 2017 Mike Doria 0

I assumed we only got one opportunity to journey through that awkward but equally as freeing coming of age experience at 18 years old.  If you remember it as I do; it’s that time we finally had all the answers, [More]