Craig Ruvere

25Apr 2013 by CJ

Suicide is NO joke

The following was one of those headlines which left me shaking my head in bewilderment. It read, “Hyundai pulls ad that plays suicide for laughs.” No, you’re not reading that wrong. It appears that the Korean automaker has apologized for an online advertisement that featured a man attempting to commit suicide by using the exhaust fumes from one of their SUVs. The rather distasteful punch line? The SUV was powered by hydrogen and therefore emits only water vapors incapable of killing anyone. As you can imagine, many at the popular car company are all pointing fingers or playing dumb as to who initially signed off on the inappropriate messaging of this ad. As my wife just said after telling her what I was writing about, “what a bunch of dopes”.…

24Apr 2013 by CJ

Finding a single moment of understanding

Life & Living

Last week I was featured on the motivational and inspirational website TinyBuddha.com. It was my third appearance on this amazing site, but something was different this time. You see my last two posts were not as personally revealing as my most recent titled, “Get Past It Instead of Getting Even: Revenge Isn’t Winning”. In fact it took me almost five months to finally get up the courage to try and tell a story which had been bottled up inside of me for almost five years. Needless to say it was difficult not to feel embarrassed and uncomfortable about something so near and dear to my heart. I had hoped that in telling my story a handful of people from the TinyBuddha.com community would find inspiration and maybe even a little…

24Apr 2013 by CJ

Leadership is more than just being the boss

Life & Living

I recently overheard a casual conversation discussing what it means to be a good leader. Though I’ve posted parts of this piece before, I feel it always needs repeating in a world filled with actors. I have a great deal of respect for those individuals in life who have a firm grasp of what it means to truly be called a “good leader” – and a great deal of contempt for those who pretend they are. I remember when I attended Growing Tree nursery school many, many years ago. One of the first games we played was “Follow the Leader”. The concept is pretty straight forward - one child is chosen to lead the group around the classroom or the playground like a group of baby geese following their mother.…

23Apr 2013 by CJ

Check out my new poetry page

Love & Relationships

If you have some time, check out my new POETRY page. https://craigruvere.com/inspiring-song-lyrics/ I’ve been writing for many, many years and this is the first time I’m sharing many of these with a mass audience. As any writer will tell you, poetry can oftentimes be very personal – which makes sharing it with others a difficult reality. But instead of having them buried in a drawer, I thought maybe it was finally time to share some of my inner most thoughts and feelings with the world. Enjoy!

22Apr 2013 by CJ

Food, Inc. – what they don’t want you to know

Information & Education, Life & Living

Recently I re-watched a very telling and disturbing documentary from 2008 entitled “Food, Inc.” My first viewing left me deeply affected by this incredibly revealing look at the food industry, and it came as no surprise that I was similarly affected this time around. Our food supply is being turned into nothing more than a big business where greed and control trump the health and well-being of all citizens of the world. It’s a topic worth repeating over and over again until everyone in American understands what’s really going on with the food we bring the table each and every day. Children naively believe that everything we eat comes from the shelves of our local supermarket, not from farms or dairies or factories, which crank out foods we crave in…