I didn’t even notice The Change when it happened to me twenty years ago. That was the medieval era, when there was nothing to do about it but endure it. What else could you do?
Category: projects
Project-Driven in 2026
So around the solstice, I wrote down 6 things on little slips of paper. These were the 6 things that I knew would make me happy, healthy, and creative. These were the things I knew would keep me playing the infinite game with gusto for a long time.
The Art of the Stealth Project: How I Keep My Secrets
I needed a plan. And I realized this with a pain and a sadness and the most loneliness I had ever felt before, that no one was going to help me
Ending The Year With Fun?
What exactly do I want more of in my life right now? What might I theme around from now until the end of the year?
Embracing Structure: How I Overcame Boredom and Boosted Productivity
I wish I were more free-wheeling and spontaneous, a creature of whimsy, driven by synchronicity and intuition rather than the Pomodoro technique. In my psychology, I want to be what BoHo Chic is in fashion—all flowy skirts, strappy sandals,,and diaphanous scarves— the Anthropologie aesthetic.
Do What You Want To Do
Concerns about making a ton of money, achieving fame or notoriety, or making it big in your industry—concerns you have at 50, aren’t important at 70.
There Are 100 Days Left in 2023. Time for a Project?
What habit or practice, could I start now and keep doing for the next hundred days that would give me a small but definite jolt of accomplishment on New Year’s Eve?
The Project-Driven Life: Summer Version
I thought about what I might commit to doing this summer so I don’t get all weepy on Labor Day as I choke down my hot dog, along with the realization that the first leaf has already fallen.
We Are All Looking At Each Other, Trying To Figure Out How To Live
We look or read about other people’s lives to see if they have a better way of doing it: a cooler way, a more fun way, a more meaningful, transcendent, spiritual, healthy, perfect way.
Summer Begins: The Report
Summer Dog Today is the first full day of summer. Yesterday was the solstice. I’m okay with time passing. I’m watching the flowers. Flower Report The crown vetch is blooming in the ditches. The bird’s foot trefoil are hugging the edges of the asphalt on the trail. The milkweed is starting, and today I saw … Continue reading Summer Begins: The Report
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