That thing about bodies in motion vs bodies at rest (or is it vice versa) is never truer than when you’re in the middle of a big push while the days are their shortest and darkest. Let me put this another way: if I had my druthers, I’d never leave the house. Possibly my bed, [...]
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10 days into the new year, I can’t tell you if I’ll accomplish everything I’ve set out to do in 2009. I can’t even promise I’ll finish out the month with my goals intact. But I can tell you this, and with some astonishment on my part: in 10 days, I just realized, I have [...]
I won’t lie: I’m not used to this kind of pace. It’s been a while since I’ve been this prolific. If ever. And I’ve never been this old while trying to be this prolific, that’s for sure. Hard-won skills are worth something, but sometimes nothing beats the sheer boundless energy of youth. I have to [...]
The official end-of-year decluttering is past and the breath of fresh air that is spring cleaning is yet to come, so most of us, I’m guessing, are in hunkered-down mode now. I mean, why not? That’s the point of all this get-your-motor-runnin’, pushing-the-#@$*!)-boulder-up-the-#!&(@%)-hill crap is, right? To do it? I, for one, am all for [...]
If you were online in a wanting-to-date capacity roughly four years ago, and you were man enough to be aged 38 to 48 and actually seeking same instead of a 12-year-old, and you lived somewhere within a 10-mile radius around the Undisclosed Location that serves as communicatrix HQ, you might have stumbled upon this: Loyal, [...]
First day of a new week. First (business) day of the new year. First day of the rest of your life. (Okay…sorry. It’s a ’60s thing. You had to be there.) I figure this is as good a day as any to put the FIRST EVER video on communicatrix-dot-com. (No, that Southwest Blog-O-Crap Contest thingy [...]
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Get your motor runnin’, Day 4: Ready, set, sleep…
It’s D-Day tomorrow, as most people count the new year. Personally, I come from the Chris Guillebeau School of Time and Goal Management: I like to get a jump on the new year as far as possible in advance of the Actual New Year. This time around, I kind of astounded myself by how frickety-freak-frack* [...]
Anyone who has been (a) paying attention and (b) reading this outside of a feed reader knows that the tagline of this conglomeration of oddities is, and has been from Day One, “A Virgo’s Guide to the Universe.” And, in a master stroke of irony, anyone who has not is not a Virgo. I am [...]
Someday, I will have to write an entire essay about my first-shrink-(slash)-astrologer. I’ve written about her in passing, usually when I need to back something up with particularly good wisdom in a particularly pithy way. My first-shrink-(slash)-astrologer, let’s call her “Zifka,” which is the name I gave her in the Young Adult novel I was [...]
The blah-o-sphere is rife with earnest, can-do, decisive (if mildly hungover) good will and wishfulness today, and probably will be until at least tomorrow. Here’s the thing: If you really want to change a habit, you know what’s involved. It’s no mystery, and you’re certainly not going to find the miracle solution in any book, [...]
