I do not want to move. I hate to move. Packing up all your crap in boxes, ADD-Me coming out of hiding and reading the newspaper we use to wrap our fragile items.  Throwing away treasures that you haven’t touched in years, but that you know you’ll need the moment the garbage man is gone.  Checking the house for the 17th time before you close and lock the door one last time. Moving a blog is like that too.  The big things, the words, they move easily.  They stack well in boxes, and unpack in order in the new place.  […]

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62-7 is a pretty awful way to lose. One of the worst losses in the modern NFL. Rough on the guys playing.  Rough on the fans that stayed up until the end to experience the full and amazing glory of losing big. Especially rough at 5 the next morning. But we can learn a lot from the 2011 Colts. Circumstances can take us from high to low in the blink of an eye. Losses happen. Big ones. Even in the pros. When you’re losing, you have the freedom to try a different approach. Every man (or woman, or child) on […]

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I visited New York with my brother recently. Buried with work stress, I told him, “You’re in charge.  I need a break from decisions and timelines; I will just follow you.” We even agreed on a trip theme:  Meander.  We had no real schedule, no commitments.  Eat when we get hungry.  Stop when we are tired.  Watch people. How did that go?  Not so well. For three days, my brother set the pace, soaked in the city, and waited patiently for me to discover I was half a block ahead of him.  For three days, each time the gap between […]

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I recently came across a very brief post from Seth Godin that crystallized the past month of my life:  You can’t watch your parade if the house is on fire. These days, I do feel like the house is on fire. I am an introvert.  I need quiet time away from people and activity to recharge.  When my batteries get low, I fall into bad habits.  I see problems as overwhelming and impossible to solve.  I see myself as impotent, powerless.  I retreat.  I miss the parade. I need to contain the fire in a controlled space, and then just […]

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It’s been said that the fire extinguisher should be the only uni-tasker in your kitchen. I saw a “watermelon knife” on a morning TV segment the other day.  It purportedly removes the seeds from the watermelon as it cuts.  For $25.  The way the knife is designed, there is no other thing this knife could possibly do besides cut watermelon.  Poorly, if i were to guess. This watermelon knife symbolizes consumerism gone awry.  Of the need to buy more and more and more.  To measure your life based on the “stuff” you own. Just turn on an episode of “Mission: […]

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