Am I still doing my heavy lifting? Yes, I am! Is it still kicking my ass? Yes, it is! Did I let that get in the way of posting today? HELL, NO. Because today is everyone’s favorite shop-on-yer-ass day, Cyber Monday. Deals galore, and all from the comfort of, well, your ass! But where to [...]
November 2010
An end-of-weekly roundup collecting fffffive of the fffffantabulous things I find stumbling around the web. Keep up with them day-to-day on one of the many other Internet outlets I stop by (or tweet at) during my daily travels. More about the genesis here. Post of the YEAR: a bunch of rich people petition for HIGHER [...]
If you tell me miracles do not happen I will not contradict you. I cannot point to precise amounts of money showing up in time to save the curly-headed ingenue lashed to the tracks from the fiery vengeance of a foul-breathed dragon. I do not believe in spontaneous healing or insta-overhauls and I am pretty [...]
I have been doing a lot of walking lately. I try always to do a lot of walking, but since I have been hard at some gnarly change-making, I have actually been doing a lot of walking. When I feel like it, I take a walk. When I don’t feel like it, I take an [...]
An end-of-weekly roundup collecting fffffive of the fffffantabulous things I find stumbling around the web. Keep up with them day-to-day on one of the many other Internet outlets I stop by (or tweet at) during my daily travels. More about the genesis here. Lessons on the nature of modern business abound in this honest post-mortem [...]
Take yourself back to first grade or kindergarten or nursery school or wherever you first learned how to really learn: One thing at a time. One fascinating thing that intrigued you at first pulling you in, with its shiny sexy foreign just-a-bit-beyond-you mystery and newness. Your shoes, maybe, the first time you pictured them going from [...]
On Saturday night, I went to bed at 8:30pm.1 I didn’t go to sleep at 8:30; it took me a full hour and a half of fighting myself to do that, with an assist from the back third of Breaker Morant and the front quarter of John Adams. Still, me, in bed by 8:30 on any night [...]
An end-of-weekly roundup collecting fffffive of the fffffantabulous things I find stumbling around the web. Keep up with them day-to-day on one of the many other Internet outlets I stop by (or tweet at) during my daily travels. More about the genesis here. A journalist explains why he is (mostly) giving up being a blogger. [...]
I will not lie to you, I have chewed my nails down to nubs to keep from grabbing a fresh cigarette. I have wept before pieces of chocolate cake and crusty heels of bread. I have powered through eight kinds of pain to run one more mile lift five more pounds bend one more inch. [...]
