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...

Simplicity & Magical Thinking

March 25, 2009
As much as we'd like to simplify our lives, the truth is that we live in a complicated world. Nothing is simple, really. Few decisions don't have at least two nearly...

Morning Karma

March 25, 2009

Hey you!

March 25, 2009
You! The one who told me to get some sleep?I know you're lurking out there...I just know it.This mug's for...

The one teacher

March 24, 2009
Her name was Alice Webster and she's the one teacher I'd like to get in touch with.I learned to write in high school journalism class. Her class. And everything I...

Voids

March 24, 2009
I was going to post a photo of termite damage and then use it as a metaphor to wax eloqent. But the photos completely freaked me out.My thought is about voids. Termites...

More poker stuff

March 24, 2009
I'm avoiding finishing up my tax planner. And avoiding making a decision about which company to use to eradicate my subterranean termites. Oh yeah. I got 'em. But at...

Peeps.

March 24, 2009
At a strip club.No kidding.There are stranger people than I out there. People who actually set up this scene and photographed it.I continue to resist the urge to buy a...

Pushing it

March 24, 2009
I was talking with a younger woman the other day about the very subject of aggression. Of pushing for closure of any kind just to eliminate ambiguity, whether it is in...

Sometimes true, sometimes not

March 24, 2009

Late breaking happy news

March 24, 2009
A former client and now a friend--a very cool (and strong) woman--had a prophylactic hysterectomy today. She's a breast cancer survivor whose family history was such...

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