“Done Did”

Like most folks, I have a crapload of stuff to get done each week.  My todo list resides in Excel, is coded by priority and date due, and is freaking ridiculous.  Unless they announce an extra 2 days are added to the week, likely my todo list will be handed over to my heirs upon [...]

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Eco-guilt

I was talking with a friend today about my eco-guilt.  “I think it has replaced my Catholic guilt.  Now that I’m no longer Catholic, I obsess a bit about the various ways I contribute to trashing the planet.  I don’t worry about hell, only my carbon footprint, ” I told her. We spoke as we [...]

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Look ma – no hands

The other night I was knitting in the car, in the dark (I was not the one driving.) I have a long history of trying to do things with my eyes closed, in the dark, with my left hand, or in one case, with my feet – I brushed my teeth with my feet b/c [...]

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Pancakes vs. the Renaissance

I was recently reading an article about whether the “Google-type” search engines, and fetching content online in general, is changing the way we seek and process information, and may be affecting our ability to do “deep reading”. This article warns that, “As we are drained of our “inner repertory of dense cultural inheritance,” . . [...]

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humans are in flux

One of the kindest, wisest things you can do for others to keep quiet when you notice them contradicting themselves, or being hypocritical. Then, hopefully they will do the same for you when the time comes.

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Sonic Cravings

I don’t often get food cravings. But I frequently get very specific music cravings.  I am compelled to listen to a certain song for, say, two days straight and then it runs it course. This past week I had to listen to Green Day’s “Basket Case” pretty much nonstop at work.  Over the last couple [...]

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Teamless

I often suspect that I ruminate over things most fellow citizens don’t. Example: I think about the plight of parents who unexpectedly have a child of indeterminate gender, or has both sets of organs and the parents have to make the tough decision of which gender the child should be assigned.  That’s the question parents [...]

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let’s call the glass “containing some liquid”

There is a Taoist story I heard a few years ago that resonates strongly with me.  The tale is of an old farmer who had worked his crops for many years. One day his horse ran away. Upon hearing the news, his neighbors came to visit. “Such bad luck,” they said sympathetically. “Maybe,” the farmer [...]

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