Musings: How’s It Going?
For those of you working your way through the Fall Reading list challenge, you’re probably about half to three-quarters through by now. How’s it going? As you think back on …
Musings: Dusty Books and Dustier Tapestries
This post is just an article dump of a few recent readings I’ve enjoyed, with metaphors mixed in. It secondarily adds to the twenty by twenty challenge, if interested. A …
Musings: On Seaside Ports and Lobster Roll
A lot of basic schemas in life are incredibly inefficient: Marriage…Sleep…Eating…Sex (not in that order)…Caring for anything from goldfish to elderly parents. Relationships, at their core, are inefficient. I savor …
Musings: Back to School
I’ve learned that you can tell a lot about a person by the way he/she handles these three things: a rainy day, lost luggage, and tangled Christmas tree lights. –Maya …
Musings: Waiting
If you want to know what it means to wait, talk to an insomniac. They’re experts on the subject. They’ve mapped the trajectory of the sun creeping up the curtains. …
Musings: Generation whY
“I was raised up believing I was somehow unique Like a snowflake distinct among snowflakes, unique in each way you can see And now after some thinking, I’d say I’d …
Musings: The Written Word
It’s comical browsing The New York Times’ most e-mailed headlines to see a piece on the lamented end of handwriting rank #1. This particular article is worth a skim if …
Musings: Anne Lamott
Every single thing that has ever happened to me is mine. –Anne Lamott “Well, that’s a double-edged sword.” I thought to myself while digging out from under a pile of …
Musings: Seth Godin
Finally got around to reading The Dip. Godin is sometimes considered reductionistic, but I like his white linen approach. It clarifies in all the places I obfuscate. Case in point, …
Musings: Joan Didion
I’ve taken a week off from work to tackle a long to-do list. I have a pile of information to absorb and as I do that, I’ll be sharing some …