Thoughts and sketches on humans, nature, running, and the end of the world
Everybody does it, but nobody wants to talk about it. I am talking about ego-surfing: that shameful act of vanity that occurs in the private of our own home or office, when we type our own name on Google (or Yahoo, or any other search engine we like to use) and look through the...
Have you ever driven home from work crying? On Friday afternoon, after a very hard week, I drove home crying. Granted, I was listening to StoryCorps on NPR. This particular story was about a 60 years old woman, Kristi, remembering her mother, Norine, who had just died. She described a moment of “blissful laughing...
The second Blogher Conference on and for women bloggers will be held in San Jose on July 28-29. If you are interested and don’t mind traveling to the West Coast in July consider registering for Blogher. I didn’t go last year and I am still regretting it (but I am going this year: I...
Happiness comes in many different flavors and varieties. Moments of happiness can catch us at home, at work, in the street, or by unexpected encounters with beauty. We can be captured by happiness when we are in a crowd, during a relaxed evening with a few friends, in a moment of connection with one...
Martin Luther King Jr. was born 11 days after my father, on January 15, 1929. They both would be 77 years old today. Had I had it my way, MLK would have lived a long life. Short of that, I am happy we celebrate his life every year in January and most of the...
I am reading The Secrets of Consulting by Gerald Weinberg (have you noticed how I always talk about books before I finish reading them? And BTW, thanks to Jared Spool and Kyle Pero for the book suggestion). By “consulting” Weinberg means “how to convince others that you can help them and how to be...