(a day late! friday wedding and a busy week makes it hard to keep deadline) I’m a taskmaster, I set goals, make lists and when I sit down to work I “work”. I realized a few months ago that I’d totally stopped listening to music, oh in the car yes (when I wasn’t listening to...
My mother wanted to get a dog the last 10 years she was with us. I remember her talking about adopting one on and off. Always she would sigh and say something like “if we had a real yard” or “dogs don’t want to live in townhouses” or “well maybe in a few years”. She...
“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us.” Williamson I had an amazingly deep, three part post planned the other night in my head as I went to sleep, something about a photographers...
Who do you want to be… ? do not answer that, this is a trick question. The other day I was for some reason researching the man who the movie “the pursuit of happyness” was based on, Chris Gardner.  I was reading about him and his accomplishments and mostly wondering what his children were...
For part of me, the kid in school who always wanted an A “right” seems pretty important. “Right” means that you can go out, read enough, ask enough questions, do something in a way proven to have worked well for someone else and you’ll hit it. Make the mark. Doing it right means study and...
When Trainspotting first came out I was downtown Ann Arbor buying some cds with a friend. We were waiting to pay and standing in the longest queue. I was bored and gabbing on about something or other when I saw a Trainspotting advertisement and started spouting off about how I thought it was horrible to...
