These are really more goals than resolutions; they are things I’d like to make priorities to focus my energy and money on. If I don’t get them done, it’s cool; this is a big pile of ambitious. But these are all areas I want to make progress in for the coming year. 750 words a
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Indianapolis Indoor Rowing Championships
So I entered this indoor rowing competition this past weekend, and I finished my race. Isn’t that cool? I did not win. I did not place. I came in dead last. But I beat my own time. And I got a cool shirt!
Read on »2012 Resolutions Check In – January
It’s not quite the end of January, but I thought I’d check in a bit early on my year’s goals because next weekend promises to be chaotic both “internally” (meaning: with my own writing plans) and “externally” (meaning: with the Super Bowl going on in the city and whatnot). So how am I doing? 1)
Read on »New Year’s Resolutions – 2012
A bit past the first of the year, but I had to spend some time working out what I want to do, and that took some time. This year I have three resolutions: 1) Follow the 12 month writing resolutions plan that I wrote about previously. 2) Keep up with rowing in the new year.
Read on »Produce as much as you consume project
In the spirit of this article I linked to the other day on Jimiyo, And a challenge from the unmarketing blog on twitter: “For one day this week, stop consuming info and create something.” I’m going to try to set aside at least one day a week, (Saturdays) and possibly two (Wednesdays) in which I
Read on »Ringing out 2010
Yesterday we had a mini earthquake here in Indiana and this time I actually felt it, because I was still lying in bed like a lazy person on vacation, because I was a lazy person on vacation. It felt like a harbinger, a bellwether. I have been significantly lackadaisical lately about nearly everything except work.
Read on »Validation
Have I mentioned to you lately that I think you are really cool?
Read on »What motivates me
I’m not motivated by a bunch of platitudes about “finding the edge” and “exploiting your potential.” I’m not motivated by people who engage in competitive behavior with people they should be collaborating with. I’m not motivated by people who rest on their laurels and do the bare minimum to get by, or people who spend
Read on »New Year’s Resolutions – 2009
Eight days into the new year, and I’m finally getting around to making some resolutions. So I’m already off to a great start! Woo Hoo! This should be great. 1) I need to get physically fit. I need to be stronger, more flexible and have better balance and stamina. The photography hobby I’ve taken up
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The Mad Farmer Liberation Front
New Year’s Resolutions – 2007
I have this trouble where I try very hard not to do something — drop a screw, tip over a paint can, upend a box of packing peanuts — and whatever I’m working so hard to avoid is exactly what I end up doing, because I’m trying way too hard. That same self-defeating thing happens
Read on »The Tao Te Ching: Three Different Translations Compared
by Lao Tzu
Read on »New Year’s Resolutions – 2006
I promise in 2006 not to start an unnecessary war based on a lie with insufficient troops to whom after three years of fighting I still haven’t given enough body armor or a plan for victory. Just kidding. I’m totally going to do that. Here are my real resolutions: 1. MORE GAY SEX IN 2006.
Read on »Shri Hanuman Chalisa
The Hanuman Chalisa is one of the most sacred books of Indian Mythology.
Read on »Maneki Neko and the Legend of “Goutokuji” Temple
At the beginning of Edo period (17th century), there was a rundown temple in Setagaya, the western part of Tokyo. The priest of the temple kept a pet cat, named Tama, and he though he was very poor, he always was sure to feed Tama first. One day, Naotaka Ii who was the lord of
Read on »Pallas Athena
The Goddess of Wisdom and Battle, the future patron of Greece’s golden city of Athens, and arguably the most important figure in the Greek pantheon, was born.
Read on »Ancient Greek Hymns to Athena
translations and notes by Shawn Eyer to commemorate the dedication to Athena Parthenos of the temple and statue which bear her name
Read on »Saint Joan of Arc
Saint Joan was one of my favorite childhood heroines; a teenage girl who lead the French army to victory against the British in the early 1400’s, inspired by heavenly voices.
Read on »Wonder Woman
Wonder Woman was one of my favorite childhood shows.
Read on »The "I Have A Dream" Speech
Martin Luther King, Aug. 28, 1963
Read on »Inaugural Address
John F. Kennedy, (January 20, 1961)
Read on »Words To Live By
Discontent is the penalty we pay for being ungrateful for what we have.
Read on »True Love
by S. I. Kishor
Read on »Life Lesson: Giving When it Counts
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Read on »Life Lesson: The Obstacle in Our Path
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Read on »Life Lesson: Pickup in the Rain
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Read on »Life Lesson: Pop Quiz
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Read on »Every Woman…
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Read on »The Bill of Rights
The first ten amendments to the constitution
Read on »I’ve Learned
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Read on »If I Had My Life To Live Over
by Erma Bombeck
Read on »What Is A Friend?
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Read on »Instructions For Life
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Read on »Hindsight
by Guy Kawasaki
Read on »Twenty Keys to a Happy Life
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Read on »Prayer for the new year (2000)
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Read on »Reading More and Dusting Less
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Read on »The Window
by Alan Seager
Read on »Success
by Bessie Anderson Stanley (1904)
Read on »The Invitation
May 1994, Oriah Mountain Dreamer
Read on »The Famous "Wear Sunscreen" Commencement Address
by Chicago Tribune columnist Mary Schmich (incorrectly attributed to Kurt Vonnegut)
Read on »It’s a Small World
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Read on »The Wise Woman’s Stone
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Read on »Phenomenal Woman
Maya Angelou
Read on »Some Important Lessons Life Teaches You
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Read on »Vonnegut? Schmich? Who Can tell In Cyberspace?
Mary Schmich, Chicago Tribune
Read on »Teddy’s Teacher
by Elizabeth Silance Ballard
Read on »Simple Friends and Real Friends
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