Love Lessons

I was sitting about 200 yards from where I’m typing this, at a campground in Maryland where I’ve taught many movement and relationship classes (yep, even combined the two once or twice). At that time I was very depressed; my relationship was on the proverbial rocks, and I couldn’t see a way through…

Writing Your Love Story

“Where do you find all those great blogs you link to?” someone asked me today.

Good question. Like most successful bloggers, I have inserted a special biofeedback chip in my right trapezius that goes “Ping-WhaZOOM!” whenever anything cool is posted on the web,*…

Conscionable Points of Contact

I have an amazingly awful addiction to alliteration. That’s partly why my ears perked up when one of my roommates used the above phrase in conversation. It was a throwaway phrase, but it captured my imagination: what would a conscionable point of contact look like?

…aaaaannnddd we’re back!

It was a tough road, and I know far more about just how ignorant I am of MySQL, etc, but we’re back online! After a hacker attacked just at the beginning of a camping trip + a cross country drive, I’ve been unsuccessfully trying to get my blog back online. It’s still not 100% — you’ll…

Practice Out of Time

I’ve hinted at it in posts here and there, but you’ve probably figured it out already: I tend to keep busy. Too busy, in fact. Looking at the “List of Signs You’re Burning Out” (see infographic below), I fit…one, two, three — yep, all of them. What does that mean?

The Uniqueness of July

This upcoming month there is a Very Unusual Event occurring. Namely, starting the evening of the 1st of July through the 31st, I will be in Seattle. At home. It’s the only month in this year — past or future — that I will not be traveling for a significant distance.

The Book of No

I’ve been taking the Scott Hanselman talk to heart — you’ve watched it by now, right, after I just about begged you to in a previous post?

No? Ah, well, that’s ok, too.

What IÂ took away from it is some tools and strategies for managing my online…

Failing Proof

‘It all fails, you see; there’s nothing, no piece of munitions-grade plate in the whole world, that can stand up to Bollo here and the big, big hammer. It’s how it fails that matters.”-the Proof House, K.J. Parker