top of page
BLOG
Search


See It Through
I just realized something about myself. I get really excited about new projects that I start and immediately want to forget about the...

Mark Craven
Mar 31, 20192 min read
Â
Â
Â


200
This is the 200th blog post I’ve written since 2015 when I started my first website. An average post is around 600 words–sometimes less,...

Mark Craven
Mar 27, 20192 min read
Â
Â
Â


Breakthrough
Have you ever sat back and wondered where the hell that breakthrough is? You know the one. After you faced the storms and had yourself...

Mark Craven
Mar 21, 20192 min read
Â
Â
Â


No Wind to Fill the Sails Moments
I just had a good conversation tonight with a friend about how we tend to get caught up on only the highs and lows of life and ignore the...

Mark Craven
Mar 19, 20192 min read
Â
Â
Â


Your Pain Is Valid
When I worked with the insurance company, the president/CEO had a few methods for motivating that I’d say were at best, ineffective. At...

Mark Craven
Mar 15, 20193 min read
Â
Â
Â


Rewrite
I’ve heard that if you don’t have some regrets by the end of your life, then you really didn’t live. That’s reassuring, in a sense,...

Mark Craven
Jan 20, 20192 min read
Â
Â
Â


The Man Who Lost His Imagination
Sometimes I wonder and almost fear what will happen if I run out of material. I mean, I’ve put a ton of work into building websites,...

Mark Craven
Dec 1, 20183 min read
Â
Â
Â


Your Beautiful Endless Heart
Really, the only constant in life is change. Things that I thought I knew yesterday are not the same things that I know today. Especially...

Mark Craven
Nov 25, 20182 min read
Â
Â
Â


It Soothes My Suffering, That’s Why It Helps Yours
I’ve written before and often thought about how doing something that I love to do and really live to do can help other people. It helps...

Mark Craven
Nov 14, 20182 min read
Â
Â
Â


Staying Stagnant and Miserable Does Not Just Eventually Turn Into Joy
Why would you move back here? That’s the same question I used to ask when I’d meet someone that either moved back to Pittsburgh or to...

Mark Craven
Nov 12, 20182 min read
Â
Â
Â


We Still...
Isn’t the human spirit something that’s amazing to behold? Looking over the events that have taken place recently, specifically the mass...

Mark Craven
Nov 10, 20181 min read
Â
Â
Â


PUNK ROCK!!!
Ok, I was more of a metal-head growing up. I listened to bands like Six Feet Under, Cradle of Filth, Slayer, Cannibal Corpse… But I did...

Mark Craven
Nov 7, 20183 min read
Â
Â
Â


100 Pages Of Poetry
Today I read a little more than 100 pages of poetry. That’s kind of easy to do because many times there’s really only a single sentence...

Mark Craven
Nov 5, 20182 min read
Â
Â
Â


Impossible Achieved
We have to be somewhat realistic with our dreams. Meaning, we have to realize that life keeps on being life even if we’ve achieved the...

Mark Craven
Oct 25, 20183 min read
Â
Â
Â


I Changed My Mind
It’s been a little while since I’ve written something. I was fully consumed in creating this new website. As I’ve said in a prior post,...

Mark Craven
Oct 23, 20182 min read
Â
Â
Â


Success Up Ahead
In 2015, I started a tutoring business. I called it, The Tutors (clever huh). I had myself and two other people going to client’s houses...

Mark Craven
Oct 13, 20182 min read
Â
Â
Â


What Am I Waiting For?
It kind of hit me yesterday that I always seem to be in this place of waiting for life to really begin. As if I’m not actually present...

Mark Craven
Oct 9, 20182 min read
Â
Â
Â


Learning Something New
So I’ve spent the last week learning how to put together a website using WordPress. By early next month, I plan to have this whole site...

Mark Craven
Oct 7, 20183 min read
Â
Â
Â


ANXIETY!
Which of you out there reading this right now have a closer relationship with that word than you’d like to? Me too. It seems like...

Mark Craven
Oct 1, 20182 min read
Â
Â
Â


A More Important Question to Ask Rather Than What To Do With The Rest Of My Life Is What To Do With
I’m not as concerned with the rest of my life as I am with right now. Right now is where I am. It’s where I’ll always only be. Even ten...

Mark Craven
Sep 29, 20182 min read
Â
Â
Â
bottom of page