I join Rana in reflecting on 2009.
1. What did you do in 2009 that you’d never done before?
I attended my first NHL Stanley Cup Playoff games!
2. Did you keep your New Year’s resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
I always make the same resolution and always try to keep it: Practice non-attachment.
3. Did [...]

I join Rana in reflecting on the past year.
1. What did you do in 2008 that you’d never done before?
I was in charge of a political campaign.
2. Did you keep your New Year’s resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
I always make the same resolution and always try to keep it: [...]

Thanks to Rana for the idea.
1. What did you do in 2007 that you’d never done before? I got a tattoo. Fearlessness in Sanskrit.
2. Did you keep your New Year’s resolutions, and will you make more for next year? I always make the same resolution and always try to keep it: Practice non-attachment.
3. Did [...]

Sorry for the non-existent posting lately. I’ve been busy.
Favcan called with good news on Wednesday. I’ve been helping him. I met with a friend (and candidate) to talk about the nuts and bolts of political campaigns. I thought his head was going to explode after two hours of stuff [...]

I read an article in the New York Times about Dr. Walter Lewin, a physics professor at MIT and new internet star thanks to his video lectures on MIT’s online classroom called MIT Open Courseware.
I went to the MIT Open Courseware site and my inner geek did a happy dance. Department after department have [...]

Dia de los Muertos. Day of the Dead.
1,948 words for NaNoWriMo.
Five days to election day.
Lunch with my candidate.
Set up the robocalls.
Work at my office.
Lit drop 200+ pieces in an hour.
Collapse at home.
Watch the Blue Jackets play in Anaheim.

You Are Trinity

“Touch me and that hand will never touch anything again.”

What Superheroine Are You?

Your Birthdate: September 25

You excel at anything difficult or high tech. In other words, you’re a total (brilliant) geek.It’s difficult for you to find people worth spending time with.Which is probably why you’ll take over the world with your evil robots!
Your strength: Your unfailing logic
Your weakness: Loving machines more than people
Your power color: Tan
Your power [...]

February 2, 2007. Imbolc and The Quickening Moon. And my moon time. Walking in a circle, casting thoughts, desires, wishes and more.
Tonight I went to the bar at a local restaurant to have one of my new favorite drinks (the Desperate Housewife = caramel-infused vodka and chocolate liquor) with my best friend [...]

My horoscope for the week of February 1, 2007:
“The disease of niceness cripples more lives than alcoholism,” said writer Raymond Chandler. That’s an exaggeration, in my opinion, but I think his point is important–especially for you Libras right now. As much as I love your ability to cultivate harmony, seek out beauty, and find the [...]

With a fresh start, perhaps it is time for me to start blogging with words again. It’s a little trickier, as I have been blogging for more than four years now, and those of you who know me probably also know about my blog.
That said, I will charge ahead with a challenge issued to [...]

Literally.
Baby bio explanation. PNAS Abstract.
More justification. I prefer my chocolate to be 70% (or more) cocoa.

My favorite television show, Six Feet Under, is over. Forever. Here’s what a review in Salon had to say:
…Alan Ball’s drama series has always reached past expectations, raising the bar and giving us TV that feels like great art, as it shakes us by the shoulders and kicks us in the ass and digs up [...]

In the introduction to Writing Down the Bones by Natalie Goldberg, Judith Guest explains
“…writers do not write to impart knowledge, they write to inform themselves.”
In Writing Down the Bones Natalie Goldberg offers these tips to writers:
1. Keep your hand moving. (Don’t pause to reread the line you have just written. That’s stalling [...]

\In`tro*spec”tion\, n. [Cf. F. introspection.] A view of the inside or interior; a looking inward; specifically, the act or process of self-examination, or inspection of one’s own thoughts and feelings; the cognition which the mind has of its own acts and states; self-consciousness; reflection.
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In the past month, I’ve been told by two people that my [...]

We Are All Related
From my writing group, 4 March 2003:
Our words blend and weave together. This tells me that everything I am, everything I do, affects everything around me. And conversely, everything others do affects me. I think of the Native American saying “Mitakuye Oyasin” – we are all related. And [...]

Bumper-to-Bumper
For weeks now, I’ve been getting calls from a company that sells extended warranty contracts for automobiles. The other day they called again. I was not my usual feisty self, so I let him try to sell me the warranty. Here is what he said:
“Ok, an extended warranty on your vehicle will [...]

Lyrics to one of my favorite songs:
Acrobat
by U2
Don’t believe what you hear, don’t believe what you see
If you just close your eyes you can feel the enemy.
When I first met you girl, you had fire in your soul.
What happened t’your face of melting snow
Now it looks like this!
And you can swallow or you can spit
You [...]