Friday Chicken #124: let’s orbit

by | Dec 17, 2010 | updates & announcements

Because it’s Friday AGAIN. And because traditions are important. In which I cover the good stuff and the hard stuff in my week, trying for the non-preachy, non-annoying side of self-reflection. And you get to join in if you feel like it. For the first time, in...

Anatomy of a (half) day off.

by | Dec 16, 2010 | mindful time management

A few years ago, one of my mentors got a bee in his bonnet about how Selma and I needed a day off. And not once in a while. Not right before I was about to fall apart. A regular thing. A weekly thing. I knew he was right. And everything in me said this was a Wise and...

The unhostile takeover.

by | Dec 15, 2010 | stuff I think about

Ahhhhhhhhhhhh. Ahahahahahahahahaha. Yes. Like that. Ahhhhhhhhhhhh. Ahahahahahahahahaha. That was the sound my body made last week when we gave in to its firm suggestion that we sleep in until whenever. Until nine! Craziness! It loved that we acknowledged how very,...

Gwishes.

by | Dec 14, 2010 | stucknesses & stuckification

I am not very good at goals. Mostly because I do not like them. Navigating and mapping and adventuring are more my style, not surprisingly, because those are things that pirates like. And I’m mostly okay with wishes as long as I pretend that they’re Very...