Take a memo.
If we learned anything from former FBI Director James Comey’s testimony this week, it’s the importance of well-written memos. Comey’s memo […]
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Unfinished or quasi-finished prose that hasn’t been published elsewhere
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Why I swim
I’m going to attempt to swim down SF Bay, from the Golden Gate Bridge to AT&T Park, on July 9.
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I’m going to swim 6.5 miles to help protect SF Bay.
Like many Americans, I’m angry and disappointed about Trump’s repudiation of the Paris Agreement. What are we going to do about
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Suburban survival
I read that Annie Dillard, when composing Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, was living in the suburbs and raising a family.
How You Got My Attention
One of today’s top recommended stories in my Medium feed is a piece intriguingly titled “How I Got My Attention Back.” I
The difficulty with complexity.
As a society, we are facing a crisis of understanding. Fake news is just the latest expression of a deeper
Santa is real.
This year I took the kids shopping with me on Christmas Eve. I gave them $60 each: A twenty to buy
Signing off Facebook for awhile.
I’m done with Facebook for now, so I am signing off for awhile. Partly I am annoyed with the company
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Specific gratitude
Keeping a gratitude diary, or less pretentiously, taking some time out of every day to write down the things you’re thankful for, is an effective way to increase happiness.
And I’d like to suggest one small addition.
In addition to writing down things you’re thankful for (rainbows, puppies, burritos) take some time each day to express your gratitude to a specific person.
Hope
The radio tells me that calls to suicide hotlines are up 30 percent since the election. The news tells me