At the beginning of the year, I made a change to the daily “To-Do” list. I started dividing it into two sections which I called: “Important and Urgent” and “Important but not Urgent.” This change has had some benefits, which I’d hoped for. It keeps me on track better than simply brain dumping onto the …
Sidebar: This is not a post about Kate Elliott’s wonderful Sun Chronicles series, though you should definitely put it in your eyes or ears – you won’t be disappointed. Yesterday was the first day in just over two weeks or so that I actually saw the Sun. Here in my neck of the woods, we’d …
I’ve been interested in Happiness for a while now. Seems like a kind of silly thing to say I mean, after all, who wouldn’t be interested in Happiness? But this isn’t about something you acquire, it’s more in the vein of what Happiness is (and what it isn’t) and how it works. I started off …
The title of today’s post is a little bit of a misnomer, as it’s going live on Sunday which would, in fact, be the last day of ConFusion 2024 and I’m drafting this post on Friday afternoon, some few hour before any actual programming begins. I’m doing this for two reasons: The First, is because …
Before I get into the meat and potatoes of today’s post, there are two bit of housekeeping I need to do: On with the Post: Today is January 14th. Statistically, there are some of you who have already veered off the plans you’d made (if you’d made any) at the beginning of the year. You …
Here we are: One week in to 2024. I hope it’s been a good one for you. Like many of you, I got up on that first day with a plan (more or less). I intended to start exploring, and making progress on the things I’d talked about Last Week. I was going to get …
Welcome to the final post of 2023. For the past week, I’ve been reflecting on 2023 and looking ahead to 2024. Like most years, 2023 had its share of ups and downs but, on the whole, there were more ups than downs. While I can’t say I’m done looking forward yet, I have got the …
Much as it’s been over the course of 2023, plans have changed. Trying to wrangle people and schedules – while admittedly, pretty easy on most days, given enough lead time – sometimes throws you a curve. So it is, this year we’ll be observing X-mas on the 24th which is the day we can all …
I’m composing this earlier in the week, though that’s not why I chose the title that I did. When this goes live, it will be Sunday, December 17th, and I am looking at time off until the turn of the year. This was planned – in fact, even necessary. If you don’t use it, you …
December isn’t quite like other months, is it? It feels like there is a whole bunch of “Hurry up” going on, especially after Thanksgiving. It seems like I’ve only just made the last cold turkey sandwich and scarfed down the last of the mashed potatoes and here it is, almost halfway through December. Adding to …