I am a regular party thrower, or perhaps regularish. I host a party a few times a year, sometimes larger, sometimes smaller, sometimes for a reason and sometimes just because it is nice to host a party. You plan, you invite, you entertain and chat with friends, some of whom perhaps you don’t see all…
No I was not particularly curious about a book that was widely panned as terrible and lacking all literary value. No I am not interested in a movie that makes lurid a woman being used to realize the sado-masochist fantasies of someone rich and powerful. The billboards, and movie stills that seem to be everywhere…
Have you observed a new mammal? A baby mammal if you will? They are marked by their diminutive size and greater or lesser degrees of helplessness. They nurse, the need protection, they are bad at keeping themselves warm so need to be close to a bigger mammal, often they are poor of sight, and they…
I read many professional resources for managing business, employees, life, balance – I like to gather lots of perspectives on how to simply manage it all and it is curious to me how much information out there contradicts so much other information out there, and how much of all of that good advice would require…
Admitting mistakes is very difficult for many of us. Even people who are not perfectionists don’t tend to like standing up and saying, “well I really messed that up, oops.” It just doesn’t feel good to say that you were wrong, or you messed up, or that you should have done it the one way…
Lots of people are talking about talking. Or communication in the form of journalistic satire. A terrible thing happened, we can all agree on that, and thus the conversation got started about what is okay to say, and what should perhaps not be said, and whether or not not saying something because it is likely…
The transition from one year t the next is always a good time to reflect since it is a natural (even if invented) break. It would probably make more sense to have the new year start on the solstice since that is a clear transition point, but then it is rather pagan and I guess…
What does it mean to be a man? Do you wake up on the morning of your eighteenth birthday, that year we have designated as being close enough, and all of a sudden you have been transformed? At 18 we as a society have decided you are mature enough to fight in a war (though…
The worst grade I got in college was a D, objectively a bad grade. I still got credit for the class, but probably it would have been better if I had just dropped and started again. Up until the final paper I had a high A – it was an intro to American history lecture.…
California is a dry state. Dry in the sense that we don’t get loads of rain, we do plenty of drinking. There are a lot of parts of California so saying that it is just one thing is a bit of a generalization I know, and I am going to make the statement anyway. We…
Faith Works 