I was listening to a podcast the other day where the host remembered a quote from a famous author about where you are impacting how you feel — and unfortunately, he couldn’t remember the author’s name. The point of the podcast host’s offhanded, unattributed pseudo-quote was to support one of his concepts for creative self […]
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Sienna
Recently I thought back over the 13 years of my marriage and realized something startling: In that time, there were only two years with no major life events. For 11 of those 13 years, we’ve gone through births, deaths, major illness, big moves, natural disasters, etc. And we’ve survived … and even grown stronger through […]
An Escape Is Good Enough
Two weeks ago, my 2-year-old went into cardiac arrest in her high chair. I happened to be home at the time, and performed CPR until the paramedics arrived. She (and I, with her) spent 10 days in the ICU, where the doctors got her heart rhythm under control and she underwent heart surgery. In the […]
The Connection Gap in the Virtual World
This past weekend, I attended the Pikes Peak Writers Conference. It’s one of the bigger writing conferences here in the state of Colorado, and I look forward to it every year. This year it was all online, and I really thought I’d be fine with that. After all, I go to writers conferences mainly to […]
The Network of Good
I’m a tinkerer. It’s my superpower. I get obsessed with puzzles and technical problems and I tinker until the pieces connect. I am always on the lookout for threads, connections, common themes — everywhere, with everything. I think in networks. Which is why I love Roam’s graph database. I’ve been using it for a couple […]
Balance and Bystanders
Lately I’ve been thinking — a lot — about how the world works. What I keep coming back to is this idea of balance. Not in the “even / level” sense of balance — but in the “ebb and flow / to and fro / rise and fall” sense. In the sense of fluctuating between […]
