By “furiously” I don’t mean “angrily.” I just mean “at a crazy fast frequency.” I launched this blog on April 20. At first it was one post per day. Until today. I think this will be my fifth post today! I am one furious blogger, indeed. (Or at least, it feels that way to me.… Continue reading On blogging furiously
Category: Musings
On blogging anonymously
A few weeks ago, when I was thinking about launching this blog but keeping it anonymous, I did a little web surfing on the subject. I smiled when I read or heard things like, “Sure, you can blog anonymously, but it’s harder to make a name for yourself that way.” I thought, Uh, yeah, no… Continue reading On blogging anonymously
Strategies for shaking things up
I’ve had some things to say so far about changes I’ve been trying to make lately. Putting it all together (the need for radical reorientation, the sense that I’ve got to shake things up and experiment with alternatives) has led to a wide variety of new habits and patterns. And some of them, frankly, just… Continue reading Strategies for shaking things up
Epiphany #2 (cont.)
Here’s another one of those addenda I might have tacked on to the previous post, but I decided to click “New Post” instead… This whole business of mixing things up and trying new possibilities, twice lately I’ve read or watched something that extolled the benefits of that approach. The first was the book by Ed… Continue reading Epiphany #2 (cont.)
Epiphany #2: This just isn’t working
It was a few weeks after Grocery Store Parking Lot Realization Day (see previous post) when I had another one of those “Aha!” moments… I’d gotten home from one of our daily drive-children-somewhere-and-drop-them-off trips. I’m not sure what it was exactly that got my attention that morning, and got me so melancholy. Maybe it was… Continue reading Epiphany #2: This just isn’t working
Epiphany #1: Breaking up is hard to do
So what launched me on this whole recent period of self-examination and personal transformation? Whence these reflections, and revolutions, and new routines? It all hit home one day in the grocery store parking lot… This was a few months ago. Several weeks before I had celebrated one of those momentous birthdays. One of those birthdays… Continue reading Epiphany #1: Breaking up is hard to do
Touches (cont.)
I thought about adding this as an addendum or clarification to my last post (“Touches, Friction, Efficiency, Love”), but then I thought I’d just create a new post and keep going with it. The Experts in the World of Bloggification say that posts should only be so long. At least I think they do. I’ve… Continue reading Touches (cont.)
Touches, Friction, Efficiency, Love
There’s been a fair amount of handwringing and alarm-sounding in recent years—and rightly so—about technology and its baleful influences on human life and experience. Books, articles, studies, documentaries—all about things like smart phones and social media and how they’re making us dumb and anti-social. And even suicidal. I recently watched the documentary “The Social Dilemma,”… Continue reading Touches, Friction, Efficiency, Love
Slowing down: how it pays off
In my last post I described my recent campaign to slow… things… down. To nurture a more patient mindset in the way I approach life, including moving slowly and deliberately with my body (because mind and body are related like that). Not surprisingly, it’s paid off… One of the sweetest fruits it’s borne has been… Continue reading Slowing down: how it pays off
Slow…down
I checked my email that afternoon. That was my first mistake. What I found waiting for me was one of THOSE emails. One of those emails criticizing me for work I’d done. It wasn’t scathing criticism, to be sure, but it doesn’t need to be, does it? What the email said was just enough to…… Continue reading Slow…down