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I collect words of wisdom like a magpie collects tinfoil. The shiny baubles of insight catch my attention and attract me to them.  Unfortunately, I’ve learned I can’t hold all the wonderful quotes and lessons I encounter in my brain at one time, and must occasionally audit what I want to carry with me. The… Read More

I’m not a New Year’s Resolution person. I have never been able to keep any resolutions past February, and when I drop them I just feel bad about myself. I also feel like the resolutions I make are often pulled out of the air based on what I feel like I “should” want, but not… Read More

I don’t think I’m alone in feeling that the holidays can be the most frustrating time of the year.  It’s not that I don’t love the holiday season. I absolutely do! It’s that there are high expectations for how great the season is supposed to be, and those expectations can lead to frustration when life… Read More

One of my favorite ideas from the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy is that of the Total Perspective Vortex (TPV). In the book, the TPV was a machine built to show beings a glimpse of the infinity of creation… and it’s used as the ultimate torture device. Human’s brains, it seems, are not meant to… Read More

I was recently listening to an interview where an economist was criticizing the way modern media reports the news. He said that the mainstream media tends to grab onto a disaster, thrust it into the national spotlight and then ask the question “how do we prevent this from happening again?!” The economist said this behavior… Read More