Another year full of challenges, but my daughter survived.
A personal reflection on finding unexpected love and joy after embracing solitude, and the liberating effects of letting go of social media and embracing real connections.
Today is Bell Let's Talk Day, a day focused on mental health awareness. For the past few years, I have been using it to talk about a theme for the next year.
Another challenging year, but coming out stronger than in the past.
Late to the party, but the first two seasons of Downton Abbey are quite good. At this late hour, I will saw they’re flawless with the character development and pacing of the stories. Just enough mystery to keep me completely engrossed in the storyline.
What to post to a microblog [http://www.manton.org/2017/06/what-to-post-to-a-microblog.html] by Manton [https://micro.blog/manton]
Best news of the day for me comes via Jason Kottke: IKEA products are now available on and directly from Amazon. This means that some things are also available for Amazon Prime shipping to get your things within two days. I thought maybe it would be the smaller household items, but there are some furniture items available too. Including my coffee table, and my daughter’s arm chair. You can also buy these fun kids’ plates there too. If you’re in the States, you can even buy the Swedish meatball
An incredibly exhausting day for both me and my daughter, but my thoughts are with a dear friend who flew to Vancouver to say goodbye.
Today, Ryan Holiday announced his latest book on his brilliant reading recommendation mailing list.
This is a smart idea: curated selection of 3 books mailed out quarterly that are not much bigger than an iPhone – 48 pages total. $15 US per quarter, or one year for $50.00 with extra goodies. Mouse Books on Kickstarter [https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mousebooks/mouse-books]
"An essential intent is both inspirational and concrete, both meaningful and measurable." - Greg McKeown
I can’t get over how catchy this song is from Katy Perry – Swish Swish [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cx1pQiETQm4]. Loved the performance on SNL last month.
Late night discovery while going through old posts: according to the Ulysses app [https://geo.itunes.apple.com/us/app/ulysses/id623795237?mt=12&at=10l4Qt], it would take over a day to read everything I have written since 2005.1 Over 400,000 words so far with many more to come. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Not everything from before 2012 is on the blog. Working my way through the archives, slowly, to republish most of it. ↩
When I feel my weakest and most vunerable, I feel my most creative. Unfortunately (or fortunately), most miss out on that journey.
Fun and useless challenge: use chopsticks with your nondominant hand.
Nothing better than taking a moment from work to watch the #WWDC Keynote.
In order to discover how to make yourself feel better, find out how best to make you absolutely miserable.
A short video about the history of tea in the world.
It’s rather interesting how the ads on YouTube load instantly, but the actual video can have issues buffering; refresh the page, new ad loads right away, but not the video.
