“I remember being annoyed when a book came out a couple of years ago by a guy who drove cross-country with Einstein’s brain. Einstein’s legendary brain. Enough already. ‘I’m going to write a book about driving across the country with Darwin’s pancreas,’ I told Julie at the time. ‘And after[…]
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Ageless Soul: #A-Z Challenge
“Aging is an activity. It is something you do, not something that happens. When you age–active verb–you are proactive. If you really age, you become a better person. If you simply grow old, passively, you get worse.” Ageless Soul: The Lifelong Journey Toward Meaning and Joy by Thomas Moore Several friends[…]
Big Rocks: My All-Time Favourite Productivity Tip
There are degrees of busyness. Crazy busy, I believe, belongs only to people in the workforce. They are the ones with a zillion things to do at both work and home, often with few people available to help in either location. If you are working and you don’t know about[…]
Enjoy Hunny and Hopefulness on Winnie the Pooh Day
When it’s eleven o’clock this morning or thereabouts, I hope you’ll join me in a little something to revive ourselves. Bread, honey and, if you wish, some condensed milk will do nicely. Eating will help us with that eleven o’clockish feeling and simultaneously allow us to toast A.A. Milne on[…]
Have You Started Death Cleaning Yet?
“I’ve never seen the settlement of an elderly person’s estate that didn’t involve at least one Dumpster,” said an estate lawyer. If you have helped with the post-death cleanup of a relative’s worldly possessions, you know the lawyer’s words are true. Margareta Magnusson, an elderly Swedish artist and author, would like[…]
RAW NEWS Gives Me Direction for the Future
In April, I wrote How to Craft Your Ideal Day…and Live It. I had a few book ideas and was looking for a way to make writing a big part of every day. I was focused on product, on doing what I’d been doing–writing for publication–but in an arena other[…]
Ra Paulette Digs Shrines in the Wilderness
I love serendipitous moments. Discovering the work of Ra Paulette was one such moment. Last week, I received an email notification of a New Mexico retreat by a writer whose work I follow. At a cost of $6,000 US for five days, not including airfare, the retreat will be happening[…]
Save Yourself! 5 Compelling Reasons to Ignore the News
I upset my grade 3 teacher, Mrs. Martin, when I announced that I didn’t care about the war in Vietnam. She kept me in at recess to plumb my psyche. Didn’t I think it was important to be informed, to bear witness? “Nope,” I replied with nine-year-old certainty. “If I[…]
The Man Who Showed Me How to Beat the Devil
Maybe you are a woman who listens to music all of the time. You can easily rhyme off your top two dozen musicians and would have trouble choosing a favourite. That’s not me. When it comes to music, I am a one-man woman. I have revered the art of Kris[…]
Don’t Know What to Do? How to Make Better Decisions
I used to think I was hot stuff when it came to making good decisions. I didn’t realize that in my closed little world of work, work, and more work, I was committed to just putting one foot in front of the other. There really weren’t that many decisions to[…]