This year has been longest I can recall in the decades since they started flying by. It has challenged me in ways I could not have predicted even twelve months ago, when I foolishly thought I’d mapped the full landscape of challenges. Much of what I’ve experienced I have not been able to share, partly [...]
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Dec 31, 2012
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51 Things I Learned in 2012
You know what you learn when you do a review of the back half of a year in which you did a massive, 50-day-long fundraising thing-a-majiggy? That it takes WAY MORE than the actual 50 days to do it. Seriously. There’s a full six months of my life (and counting) that’s all 50-for-50! 50-for-50! 50-for-50! So here’s a [...]
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Dec 27, 2011
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100 Things I Learned in 2011, Part 1
I, for one, am flummoxed. Also, baffled, perplexed, confounded, and generally mystified. No sooner do I finish off my list of 100 things for 2010 than I’m sitting down to do it again. How is this possible? Who is stealing this time? And for the love of all that’s holy, PUT IT BACK. Well, no matter. While [...]
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Dec 30, 2010
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100 Things I Learned in 2010, Part 2
This year didn’t kick my ass so much as it snuck up behind me, whispered in my ear it would kill me if I made so much as a wrong move, and slipped off into the night before I could make out what the fuck it looked like. This year was easily the worst since [...]
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Dec 28, 2010
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100 Things I Learned in 2010, Part 1
I know that normal people marvel over how fast time flies when they see Rite Aid putting out the holiday tchotchkes in July or read stories of their college roommates’ babies get busted for dealing meth, but I’ll tell you what, nothin’ sez “Old timer!” to this old timer like posting your SEVENTH annual “Things [...]
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Dec 30, 2009
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100 Things I Learned in 2009, Part 2
Wherein I (once again) attempt to show that one is never too old—or middle-aged, anyway—to learn. Or spout off about it. Part 1 here, in case you missed it. xxx c Making something short takes a long, long time. And still provides a disproportionately large ROI. To love is to serve. Idiocy can inspire genius. [...]
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Dec 28, 2009
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100 Things I Learned in 2009, Part 1
How about we start off this year’s list with a riddle: Q: What’s harder than writing your annual 100 Things list? A: Writing it after a year of blogging every day, plus once weekly somewhere else, plus writing a monthly column, plus writing another monthly newsletter, plus tweeting, plus Facebooking, plus whatever other goddamned writing-type [...]
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Dec 30, 2008
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100 Things I Learned in 2008, Part II
I know! I know! You’ve been on pins and needles, those of you not on tenterhooks. (Go on, click. I didn’t know what they were, either.) Here’s the second half of my Sweetly Grouchy Look Back at 2008. Which, to wrap it up in a sentence, wasn’t bad, exactly, but felt an awful lot like [...]
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Dec 27, 2008
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100 Things I Learned in 2008, Part I
I love lists. Making them is soothing, stimulating and illuminating all at once. (Also, a hands-on lesson in the old saw that making something look easy is hard work.) I’m not sure how good this year’s list is; honestly, I think that having so much social media in my life has acted as kind of [...]
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Dec 29, 2007
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100 Things I Learned in 2007, Part II
Wrapping up this fine and crazy year in 50 short-to-medium numbered items. If you have OCD or something like that, you might want to read the first 50 short-to-medium numbered items first. I may not be a dog person, but I’m definitely an Arnie person. In every possible figurative sense, my eyes will probably always [...]
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