I didn’t submit a talk show idea to Oprah. (You can thank me in the comments.) I didn’t submit a panel idea to South by Southwest. I didn’t submit myself as a speaker for the international women’s conference a friend urged me to. I haven’t entered a contest or sweepstakes in I-don’t-know-how long, haven’t asked [...]
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A follow-up post stimulated by a comment on last week’s, Bad habits live in the dark. This is a week of observing. By which I mean this week, I am turning my attention to what is going on in a given moment, any moment, but particularly (when I can slow myself down enough to catch [...]
I’m curious: now that you’re four months or so into the process of slowing down and doing less , washing the metaphorical dishes in your psychic kitchen sink, if you will, and clearing off the piles of metaphorical papers on your psychic desk top, if you will , what are you uncovering? , Dan Owen, [...]
An old analog relationship washed up on my digital shores a few weeks back in the form of an old college professor reconnecting via email. We’d exchanged letters just once, shortly after I made an abrupt decision to leave upstate New York earlier than I’d planned and strike out for New York and whatever came [...]
Weird, one-off disclaimer: Apologies if this gets nerdier in places than our regular program. I’m still processing the events and information of the past week, and via sleep-deprived filters. Which means that given my own standards, I probably should wait to post about it here, but given my iffy memory, I thought it best to [...]
Each of the four years I’ve been coming to SXSW, I’ve learned a little something different. The first time, it was about the value of coming to a conference, period. The next time, about learning to take the time I needed, regardless of the enticing hoopla happening around me (and also about not skipping a [...]
I had big plans for this weekend, mostly because I had even bigger plans for this week: Taxes! South by Southwest! My first experience performing (hopefully) at The Moth! I was cat-sitting for L.A. Jan while she went off for a restorative weekend in the Desert, so I figured I’d get plenty done. I had [...]
Now that it’s safely behind me, I can confess that I was not looking forward to my trip to Washington, D.C., last week. I made my plans a few months ago, when I was still excited about the prospect of working at speaking, working at consulting, working at this thing I’ve been working at for [...]
That Seth Godin has a new book coming out is generally a cause for celebration. Seth has a knack for teasing out one big, necessary idea and illuminating it in a way that makes it seem obvious, post-reveal, without ever coming across as obnoxious. That, my friends, is a gift. So, too, is the way [...]
I. (The part not for the faint of heart.) I dreamed of demons in the night Not the green, horned kind but the ones that plague me while I walk, awake, and still asleep. Old, dead relatives gathering in a too-costly too-luxurious too-dark hotel, all surfaces lined with plush fabrics to dampen the sounds that happened [...]
