Recently, I’ve had a personal brush with disappearing data. In my case, it wasn’t economic or public health data, it was the link to a written work that served as the evidence I had been published. I knew Public Broadcasting budget cuts had...
Sometimes, you just want to paint by numbers, more or less, or at least I do, so I dug out this Emily Lex Flowers Watercolor Workbook and whiled away some hours. With gift giving time approaching, here's a thought for sharing an opportunity for zen...
I like this book, but this isn't really a book review post. I've been studying Irish online lately, because I'm just that kind of nerd. Some of the things I've learned seem to have philosophical implications. To express and emotion, you don't say...
Last week, Holly Ringland was a guest teacher inside Ink and Flame, a writing intensive hosted by Beth Kempton. She is the author of “The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart”. I'm late to the party because it's already an Amazon mini-series with...
I've spent a fair bit of time on long airplane flights lately, so I allow myself a nice juicy novel. Dan Brown, of The Da Vinci Code fame, has a new one out. It's pretty good as a novel, but it also sneaks up on you with interesting takes on the...
I'm a bit of a latecomer to Mel Robbins, and not everything hits with me, but there is a back episode #296 that talks about body image issues in a way I have never considered before. Think about this - humans are not engineered to see ourselves as...
Did you know it is actually still possibly to get a magazine without ads? An honest to God, really high quality magazine. This one is the brainchild and love offering of Janine Vangool, a Canadian writer and publisher. Each themed issue features...
This is a book I've had for a long time. I bought it because I have met the author, Tejpal, several times when I've been lucky enough to spend some time at the Miraval Resort in Tucson. You know how you buy a book because you like the author, but...
I can't lie, I've mostly been reading what I call “airport fiction” lately - those series of novels that are the literary equivalent of Law and Order or CSI. But I did make time for this book - Whole Brain Thinking by Jill Bolte Taylor. You may...
In 2013 a man named Dan Pallotta gave a TED talk that went viral. He made a passionate case for changing the way we evaluate charities, that by focusing on how little they spend instead of how much impact they deliver. Whether it changes your mind...