Sometimes you focus your attention somewhere and sometimes something grabs your attention and focuses it upon itself. The sound of sprinklers woke me up this morning and while I tried to pretend that it was a white noise that I could sleep through, I was mostly fooling myself. Which is to say that I wasn’t …
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Crazy corn
Sometimes organization is overrated.
Eating the older food in the fridge first
I have this great habit of eating the older food in the fridge before it goes bad. This means I save money by not throwing away food that costs money. I have this terrible habit of eating the older food in the fridge before it goes bad. This means I am always eating older food …
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Don’t take it personally
I got better at not taking things personally when I had kids. Tonight, for example, my 2-year-old was on edge and screaming at me for no apparent reason. Little things set her off because she had only a very short nap today. She had a shorter than usual nap, and so she’s screaming at me. …
Not following the instructions
If they give you stickers for the tires but you have a custom tire design in mind, then: It’s important to remember that you don’t have to follow the instructions.
Touching the bottom
If I had to guess, I would guess that people who fail are more likely to go on to be successful if they continue. They might learn from their mistakes, but mostly I think touching the bottom or losing everything lets you know exactly how bad the worst really is. And if it isn’t that …
Tell me what you see
This is a group of sailfish circling a group of sardines: And so is this: They are beautiful and different and beautifully different. You might say something I’ve heard ten times before but sometimes the eleventh time is the one that feels like the first time I’ve heard it. Your perspective matters, and you owe …
Make your bets count
One of the things I like about poker is that the blinds (the mandatory bets) increase as the game goes on. This forces you to think about your stack of chips and your cards in a different way. Your chips will diminish faster as the size of the blinds goes up, and you’ll be forced …
Every color of the rain puddle
We have this kinetic sand toy that came as three primary colors and you mixed those to have a rainbow of six colors. It was beautiful but as the kids kept playing with it, the colors of the rainbow became the color of a rain puddle. Mix everything together and you get brown. Variety is …
What is life?
I was woken up by my 4-year-old kid today at 7:00am. He was at my bedside, “I’m bored. Can I watch TV?” We let him watch TV but I don’t like when he wakes up and watches TV first thing in the morning, like that’s life or something, or what he’s living for and wants …