The Serious Value of Silliness
Lessons from my inner five-year-old You may have noticed that the world is kind of a mess lately. Lately, as in the past five years, or the past 30, or the past 500. Climate change, pandemic, the disastrous end of a…
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Standing Firm
Taking steps is easy, standing still is hard. So goes a portion of the lyrics of Regina Spektor’s haunting theme song “You’ve Got Time” from the Netflix original series, Orange is the New Black. I’m not in prison, I’m in…
The Hazards of Springing Forward
Did you, like me, wake up this morning as grouchy as a bear after hibernation? And just as hungry? Except that unlike the bear, you probably don’t feel rested. Maybe you’re feeling a bit dazed, perhaps a little clumsy. It’s possible your…
For Writers: Exercise In Your Genre
“Writing and travel broaden your ass if not your mind and I like to write standing up.” — Ernest Hemingway reddit.com Hemingway made it a habit to stand while writing. So did Charles Dickens, Virginia Woolf, Soren Kierkegaard, and Stan Lee. It…
Fitting In
As spring swells toward summer, seems like a good time to revisit a previous post. Happy to say I’m still at it! Getting in shape, staying in shape . . . you’d think we’d have it all figured out by…