If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is a compromise. –Robert Fritz That ties in to today’s Word Spy phrase. I love…
Posture and Headaches
I’ve been trying to remember to stand up straighter and be mindful of my posture in general since reading about a connection between poor posture and headaches. (I can’t find the original article, but here’s another one.) I told real_pochacco,…
Language Arts
Confession: Homeschooling is a great excuse for buying cool stuff I wish I’d gotten to play—um, learn—with as a kid. But as our kids outgrow some things, I guess I’ll have to just push them on other people for their…
Cynfrastructure
He forced shoes on me
Dimensions of Musical Preferences
What Your Taste in Music Says About You It showed that musical preferences could be organized into the following four general dimensions according to the level of complexity, emotion, and energy found in each musical style: Reflective and complex—classical, jazz,…
QOTD and Health
Never take the advice of someone who has not had your kind of trouble. –Sidney J. Harris I think that’s particularly true when it comes to medical matters. The fact that my brother is a doctor, but has never had…
A-Z Meme
Strange Email
Do you ever get utterly weird emails? I mean, inexplicably weird? I don’t have my email address on my web site in plain form, because I get enough spam already, thankyouverymuch. I have a form, and if someone REALLY wants…
After the First P-D Session
Fascinating article about Rand Beers: Former Aide Takes Aim at War on Terror I got the link from Diane Duane’s blog. She talks about her writing process in Writer-In-A-Can 1: Meeting the Transcendent Pig. I had a P-D session last…
Neat Article
Oh cool—I wouldn’t have connected geranium leaves, gold, and nanotechnology myself.