The trap of streaming content all day

October 9, 2025
It starts innocently enough.  A rainy afternoon, a comfy couch, and “just one episode” of a series everyone’s talking about. But suddenly—hours vanish, the sun has set, and the only exercise you’ve had is reaching for the remote. Streaming platforms are designed for this. Episodes...

Not how we Catholics heard the story, but still…

April 7, 2009
it's an interesting...

Scarification

April 7, 2009
If I were to get a tattoo, it would be this one.But my friend, Scott, talked me out of a tattoo a few years ago. He pointed out that aging skin is not that attractive...

Journalism’s Demise & the State of Things

April 7, 2009
The news. I stopped regularly consuming American news media content more than a year ago, sick of the constant stream of hyped up bad news. With the media increasingly...

Alexandra, lost

April 6, 2009
So back to "what did you love about him?" I found this such a tough question when G. asked it. Not because it wasn't real, or because I didn't know, but because it's...

"I always feel happier," she said

April 6, 2009
About two years ago, a friend who is an organizational development consultant invited a group of women to her Orlando home for a mini-retreat. The women came from as far...

Our stories

April 6, 2009
Someone asked me the other day what I loved about the former DH2B. It got me thinking.Each of us has their "story"--the history of events that, all together, get us to...

The Universe moves slowly

April 6, 2009
Going through some old file boxes, I found a journal I kept briefly during the mid-90s. There were a number of entries from one of the Key West Christmases. Despite the...

Key West Morning

April 6, 2009
I took Riley for a short walk this morning. It's overcast, about 75 degrees, with one of those soft, humid breezes rustling the palm fronds. It reminded me a little of a...

The origin of coffee ..and (wo)man

April 6, 2009
I was enjoying a cup of hot, strong coffee this morning & wondered about its origin. Turns out that recent botanical evidence suggests that the history of the...

Just live.

April 5, 2009
The world is full of people who will go their whole lives and not actually live one day. She did not intend on being one of them(from a CurlyGirl...

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