“The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.” —Nietzsche Do you know that moment when Scooby Doo goes “Aaarug” (his puzzled grunt)? Or when Taylor Swift asks what “When you said you needed space”. Those are the moments when you do a double-take or wonder […]
Bad habits are a great thing Habits. Everyone as one or a million or so. There are just as many websites that try to show one the path from engaging in a bad habit to being habit-free. There are also also all those psychologically-bent websites (such as Psychology […]
As I hung out with my son encouraging him to fall asleep, he asked me “will you be here in the morning when I get up?” I thought that was strange and assured him that of course I would be there. I asked him why he was […]
It’s the end of the high road Time to jump and find one’s mettle The ladder back up ain’t so stable Use your wit to stay afloat Close your eyes and dive backwards The gnats won’t follow you down The caped man will jab your stare Fly down […]
EARLY TO RISE Happiness. I am in my all-time favorite place taking a well-deserved break. Hawaii! If it weren’t for the fact that toilet paper is so expensive here (an indicator of a high cost of living) I would leave my near-impossible-to-accomplish job and expensive San Francisco house […]
At this point in our rapidly moving world, i do not know many people that do not keep or create to-do lists. I have my daily, as well as weekly and yearly to-do lists. They keep me going and on task. They also keep me motivated and severely […]
Despite it’s extremely “pop” nature, I liked Malcom Gladwell’s The Tipping Point. He is a fellow social psychologist. Yah! I have seen academic psychologists sneer at his type of writing but we all know that it is just deep-seated jealousy. For my dissertation, my co-chair is a pretty […]
Robin, you are still alive I have been trying to clean up my emails for the past year. I am down to 600 or so in my personal account that are unread. I have four email accounts that I actively use to varying degrees. Every once in a […]
Sometimes it depends on whether the shark decides to eat you or not It is at times a dog-eat-dog world. Of course, growing up I thought it was a doggie dog world. I thought, why yes dogs do rule! Then somewhere in my mid 20s I learned the […]
These days you would be a fool to not realize any email you send out has a good possibility of being seen by people you originally didnt intend to read the email. These days people forward emails, respond in blind copies to others, or involve other people in […]
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