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Sometimes I go to the hardware store looking for nothing but ideas. Sometimes what I walk away with is nothing more than a search term.

Mindfulness is nothing new. In fact, my parents were exhorting me to be more mindful long ago. I’ll bet yours were too.

I recently completed a re-read of the book 1984 by George Orwell. I was simultaneously encouraged and a little bit depressed

I get a lot done, I really do. Yet it’s also frustrating how much more I could do if I would just … start.

Low level anxiety over current events has produced an odd side-effect: a desire to be around people.

“I do not think it means what you think it means.”

One of the things that mindfulness (to use the currently popular term) focuses on is what’s happening now. It’s really nothing more than another way to say “pay attention!” – to yourself, to the world around you, to what you’re thinking and feeling right now. “In the moment”, as they say. Some time ago I […]

When it comes to the state of the world, to the state of politics, to the state of our leadership, I’m lost, I’m frustrated, I’m stuck, I’m a little afraid, and I don’t know what to do about it.

I love my mobile phone, but there’s an important task that I can’t use it for, so I’m stuck carrying a second device with me.