Four Complications of Property
(This is an installment of CommonSensical.)
If you own things, what’s their effect on you?
So asked the English writer E.M. Forster
November 2008 Archives
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An Uncommon Way to Express the Real You
I picked up the kids at school the other day, taking Pepper the puppy along. As I watched children burn
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Thanksgiving Song
This week, in observance of Thanksgiving, I offer a post stylistically different than most of my Soul Shelter entries. What follows
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One Way to Fix a Dysfunctional Workspace
Returning at summer’s end from my computerless, Internet-less, cell phone-less, television-less vacation on beautiful Orcas Island, I suddenly realized my
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The Ground Underfoot: Why Stories Matter
These days, I’m deep in the throes of composing a new novel. It’s a damn complicated process, and while it’s
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Quiz: Are You the Entrepreneurial “Type”?
Ever wondered whether or not you are an “entrepreneurial type” of person?
It would seem easy enough to find out: The
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O is for Optimism
“Then he began to make it his. It was very beautiful because it wasn’t hurried and it was no longer
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One Way to Protect Your Soul in a Wired Age
Beware EAT …
Earlier this year, a student sent me an e-mail message asking for help with his research.
“I’ve searched all
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Six Ways to Stretch Time
“Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in.” – Henry David Thoreau
Here in the Pacific Northwest the tree-leaves that
