by Thomas Umstattd Jr. | Aug 12, 2014 | Christian Living, Courtship, Personal
I grew up as a member of the homeschool community. When I was a teenager, my friends started reading this new book called I Kissed Dating Goodbye. For months we could talk of little else. After reading it myself, I grew into as big an opponent of dating as you could find. Dating was evil and Courtship, whatever it was, was godly, good and Biblical.
by Thomas Umstattd Jr. | Nov 20, 2013 | Life Events, Personal
Somehow I found myself in a Mastermind Group with a bunch of authors. If you are wondering how Thomas (not an author) started hanging in an author mastermind group, I can tell you I have no idea. If memory serves me correctly, one of them saw me at a writer’s...
by Thomas Umstattd Jr. | Oct 29, 2013 | Life Events, Personal
I started using Facebook back in September 2005. In those days, Facebook had big brother in the logo and was only for college students. I remember when Facebook came to UMHB. There was a mad rush on the IT department of students doing password resets so that they...
by Thomas Umstattd Jr. | May 25, 2012 | Personal
For those of you who have followed this blog for some time you know I normally post a republican primary voter guide. This year I have been so swamped with launching the Bestseller Society, that I have not had a chance to put one together. Fortunately my dad, Tom...
by Thomas Umstattd Jr. | Jan 2, 2012 | New Years Predictions, Personal, Politics
Predicting the future is not rocket surgery. I just involves watching cycles & trends. The problem is there is no way to account for anomalies which makes failure easy to excuse. Here are 12 things I see happening in 2012.
by Thomas Umstattd Jr. | Dec 31, 2011 | Life Events, New Years Predictions, Personal
It is that time again. Time to l0ok back on 2011 and summarize what I’ve been up to all year in 1000 words or less. But first lets score my 2011 predictions. Scoring the 2011 Predictions Prediction 1: New iPad With Camera Got it, bought it, love it. 1 point....