How to throw and leave a Pity Party

A person I respect recently gave me some feedback and advice that was hard to swallow. I didn’t like it. At all. I spent a couple of days trying to figure out how I’d teach myself to love cleaning out trash cans and mopping floors because obviously these are the only things I could possibly [...]

If no one is having fun, what is the point?

If you are a parent, you probably are not going to like this post. However, I observed something today that confuses the heck out of me and I’m absolutely dying to understand it. And, for the record, my questions are really less about parenting and more about decision making…

Decision-making tips from the streets of San Francisco

I have learned to love San Francisco. I made my first visit to “the City” in the late 1990s, before I moved to the Bay Area. I loved many things about it: the views, the people, the diversity, the food. But I never thought I would want to live near it. I tended to notice its flaws. It seemed dirty, old, and overly eccentric. Slowly, that view has softened…

What decision is keeping you from happiness?

Every three years or so, I have the desire to watch old Merchant Ivory films. For those not familiar with Merchant Ivory Productions, it is a movie production company that has produced English films like A Room With a View (1985) and Howards End (1992)…

Deciding without deciding

The awesome author and blogger Pam Slim recently tweeted about a blog post by Glen Allsopp. Glen’s blog post was about how you can decide what you want to do with your life without actually deciding. In a nutshell, Glen urges us to stop trying to figure out the big picture of our lives and just “follow whatever interests you most”…

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