New Year’s: The Great 2010 Chicken

by | Dec 30, 2010 | stuff I think about

So normally the Chicken happens every Friday when I write about the hard stuff and the good stuff from my week. And occasionally on Thursday.. We also have a yearly chicken tradition, that started with the big crazy Chicken for 2008 and continued with the Great...

One Hundred Chickens.

by | Jun 29, 2010 | updates & announcements

I like rituals. This is not a secret. I like the way they can be tiny and silly and mysterious all at the same time. How they cultivate mindfulness but not in some annoying “ooh I’m being mindful” way. How they can be private and communal at the same...

Rome. Success. Secrets. And a timeline.

by | Jul 14, 2009 | biggification

A while back I made the sweeping editorial decision that I wasn’t going to write one of those “debunking the myth of overnight success” posts. I just didn’t feel like adding anything to the whole Rome wasn’t built in a day thing, which is...

Triggers.

by | May 24, 2009 | stuff I think about

Observation number one: Having a moth fly into your ear and not be able to get out is quite unpleasant. Observation number two: But what’s so much more unpleasant is not knowing that it’s a moth and thinking you have gone crazy. Completely and irrevocably....
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