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Traveling Thoughts
I’m heading out for Colorado this week. Â I’ll be driving. Road trip! I love to drive across the country and am busy planning and packing. I want to be well-prepared. The hours of solitude are like a personal retreat for … Continue reading
Happiness & Possibility
Pursuit of Happiness During the embattled years of law school, a friend and I clung together in our metaphorical fox-hole, confiding to one another all that was scary, going wrong, or likely to go wrong. We’d spend hours (over nachos … Continue reading
What Is Important?
Workflow planners have lots of advice on time management but generally assume that you already have firm grip on your basis for setting priorities. One of my favorite time planning systems, Steven Covey’s “First Things First,†charts tasks according to … Continue reading
Willpower and Willingness
My inner nag is pointing out all the things I’ve left undone . . . and my inner resister-of-authority wonders if the ‘not doing’ is about needing a break. This is always a tricky question. I am so ready to … Continue reading
Change of Habitude
I’d been waking up several times in the night feeling intense anger and fear. Weird. No reason for that. When I took a mental step back, I realized that I was actually experiencing a strong surge of physical energy and … Continue reading
The choice:
fitting myself to the system or communicating myself, ‘in my full stature and proportion,’ through the work and the way I choose to do it. –Linda Alvarez “The common experience is that the man fits himself as well as he … Continue reading
BTUs & Freedom
One bright morning, as we sat at the breakfast table with our good friends Phil and Rhonni, I looked down at the dreadful rust-colored indoor/outdoor carpeting that former inhabitants had glued to the floor of our cottage’s kitchen. To the … Continue reading