A skeptical dive into the weird, sketchy, occasionally life-changing world
of self-improvement.
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It’s the most blunderful time of the year
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Christmas is tricky and exhausting. New Year’s is fraught. The world’s most powerful people are insane. Read this post for a break from all that.
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Day 15: Some days just don’t work
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I spent the latterly chunk of today despairing of getting nothing done, on account mostly of our youngest’s new habit of being an angel during daylight hours and a shrieking, sleepless imp by night. I’d call it…
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Day 14: The Egyptian Goddess of Irony
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Our family game was always “Balderdash,” a trivia game where all but one answer is made up by the players. It goes a little like this: one player is get handed a card, on which are printed…
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Day 13: finally, a little luck
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It’s a truism that aphorisms never track back to the person who supposedly said them. — Mark Twain.1 Gary Player, a golf player who (for the non-golf players) really is called Gary Player, supposedly coined the aphorism,…
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Day 11: But what about *second* day of rest?
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It may not surprise you to find out that after 24 hours of feverish gastro I am still not 100 percent; I did in fact spend a chunk of today asleep.
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Day 8: Sawing the Zs
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Sawing the Z’s Every day I teeter on the edge of not sending one of these out; every day (or night) I manage to do it anyway. A lot of the pain I experience, mental or physical,…
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Day 7: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, Reanimate
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I’m now a full-time artist/writer/marketing contractor/consultant/dilettante
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Day 5: The Printing Press
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I have, true to my word, been absolutely smashing the website. As always when I make Website Stuff I feel like Homer when he’s been up all night eating cheese, or like Billy Joel Armstrong in Brain…
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