Friday Chicken #99: bottles of beer

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. Yes, they’re on...

The Gracious No.

I’ve been working pretty much non-stop on this for a couple years now. I’ve written about how stuckified I can get with saying NO. And composed so many Very Personal Ads asking for help finding that elusive, gracious NO. Because that’s what I want:...

Bits and pieces of information.

So last week at Camp Biggification (which was amazing, by the way), I inflicted some serious Shiva Nata on everyone. Epiphanies were had. Worlds were shaken. The usual. And we took a lot of notes. Here are some of my scribbled notes (the ones I’ve been able to...

The Encroachers

Background: The thing with Shiva Nata: it makes/strengthens neural connections which let you see your patterns, and all the different ways they can be taken apart and put together. When you do it right (by doing it wrong), you can end up in that cop show detective...
The Fluent Self