Misremembering Life

There’s a lot of hullabaloo recently about a reporter who misremembered some events during the Iraq conflict. Personally I tend to agree with the folks who rather bitterly point out that if the news media had been as careful with fact checking the actual buildup to the war as they are Brian…

Gaming Your Practices

One of the ways to change your habits — whether to remove or add them — is to trick yourself into doing it by connecting it to some other abstract ritual. It feeds into our natural human tendency for pattern recognition — for example, the famous self-help guru Jerry Seinfeld recommends…

Love Waits

About 30 years ago, maybe a little more, I sat in a room with a bunch of other teenagers putting on thick makeup, a top hat and tails, white gloves. I was nervous, because I was the very first opening for the production of 42nd St. Kabuki, an adaptation of the classic musical with a Japanese-style twist as…

The Secret Key to Active Constructive Response

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Thanks to Octavia, we also spent my birthday with friends in NYC![/caption]

A Simple Love

“Love should be as simple as possible-but no simpler.”
- Albert Einstein (sort of, not really)

I’m likely to make a couple of my friends relatively uncomfortable with this post, for which I apologize, since they are both fairly introverted. Out of respect for that, I’ll keep…

A Relationship with Pain

“Life is pain, princess. Anyone who tells you different is selling you something.”
- Dread Pirate Roberts

My friend JP and I have determined that we have a strange idea of “pain”.

Practice in Practice

This entry is being written from a hospital bed, so I’m not going to make it very long. It’s a minor procedure, just a little hernia repair, but it is a different situation. I don’t usually spend a lot of time in hospitals, at least not as a patient.