If you look in the upper right hand corner of this screenshot from the Facebook Super Bowl ad you will see me. I’m pretending to barbecue. Some people will see that my image is small and I was only ...Read More
On Sunday Nurit and I followed up on a lead from Peter and found the rare and very old third order Saguaro Cactus. It has a branch off the trunk and then a branch off the branch and then finally a bra...Read More
In the next decade a major university with a big time college football program will stop playing football. Probably as a result of a law suit regarding a head injury. The plaintiff will argue, that in...Read More
In society happiness correlates with prosperity. But to work the prosperity has to be earned and it has to feel communal. Last year I wrote about prosperity and I missed the earned and communal factor...Read More
In the late 1960s when I was a hippie carpenter in upstate NY I drove a VW van like this. It had a terrible heater and in the winter when I was driving home drunk late at night I would almost freeze t...Read More
Yesterday I posted about a change in my postcard routine that had a positive effect on my enjoyment of postcard writing as a hobby. As I finished the post I realized I have another change going on rel...Read More
Small changes can have big results. I was writing postcards in batches of ten or more and breaking the batches down into steps it took me a few hours to write ten postcards and the batch nature of the...Read More
ASG is an acronym for an Arbitrary Stupid Goal just like in the eponymous book by Tamara Shopsin. I am trying out the concept because I think it does lead to opportunities for serendipity. In this cas...Read More