Love not Fear: Living by the Four Agreements
Thursday, October 11th, 2007Corvus and I (right before we stopped commuting to work together because somebody started working from home…) had the opportunity to reread The Four Agreements. Every couple years or so, I pick it up again–usually when I feel that my metaphoric walls have gotten a little thin and the world is wearing me out more [...]
New Beginnings: The Importance of Circles (And Women’s Circles in Particular)
Friday, September 28th, 2007Last night I did a brave thing. I stepped outside my comfort zones. I made a new start. Over a year ago now, (gosh, maybe its even been nearly two!) I signed up to be on a classes/events email list for the local yoga studio. The cost of attending was a bit prohibitive, despite my [...]
Geek Chic vs. Geek Cred
Wednesday, August 29th, 2007Over on Wired you can read about the geeks guys behind Penny Arcade (Link), my favorite online comic strip (and a pretty hilarious blog) for the geeky gamer type. The whole article is great, but this paragraph in particular tickled me. “The term geek has acquired a patina,” says Holkins, a writer prone to ornate [...]
Abandoning Books
Friday, April 7th, 2006I started reading Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood after seeing the movie, which was just fascinating. However, barely twenty pages into the book I had to abandon it. I found his use of language to be heavy-handed and flowery, as if he were trying too hard to be literary. Also, the whole novelization of this [...]