Four Simple Steps to Getting Fit
When you reach a certain age, you start to resemble what you eat—and that’s bad news for people like me,
Simplicity
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My Valuable Downgrade
— There’s more to life than upgrades —
Upon completion of the final draft of my latest novel three years ago,
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Fixing a Broken Work Model
— Creativity on, CPU off —
Try as I might, I still spend too much time in front of the computer.
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On Slowness
— Slow is “in.” And for good reasons —
These days, the term slow suffers a number of negative connotations. Industrialism, globalization,
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The Happiness Issue
— Is materialism bad for one’s emotional well-being? —
While reviewing thousands of psychology studies performed over the past six decades,
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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
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When Time Stopped
I’d seen them in the boarding area: two teenage Dutch girls, each carrying souvenir American flags, chatting excitedly as they
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What Making Chili Taught Me
Last Friday night, for the first time in 20 years of marriage, I felt how my wife must feel most
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What Do We Really Need to be Happy?
— Something to be enthusiastic about —
Someone once asked Billy Joel about the peak moment of his musical career. Was
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A Message to Those Confused About Career Direction (Part Deux)
Last week I wrote an essay about career confusion, the key point being that it’s normal to not know what you
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