Shame is Fame
Seriously? Lance Armstrong is going to sit down with Oprah Winfrey to confess what everyone already knows, that he took performance-enhancing drugs to win his Tour de France titles. And it’s …
Be Unafraid
My resolutions for 2013. Be unafraid: I’m not especially timid, but misplaced fear holds me back more than it should. It probably holds most of us back more than it should. They’re mostly …
It Would Have Been Impossible to Kill 20 School Kids With a Musket
Violently disturbed aberrations existed 200 years ago, too. For what we know, bad people have always existed and will always exist. We can’t do anything about them. No social program, no medical …
What Getting Older Has Felt Like (For Me)
I’m not old yet. That’s what I tell myself, anyway. Old is some sort of benevolent trap that some of us make it to. I’m not trying to talk about old today, but older. I am older.
What Busy Feels Like
For the most part, busy feels great to me. It feels like I am adding value, that what I’m doing is important. Busy also feels scary. It feels like I’m close to the edge. Deadlines are …
What Fatherhood Means to Me
I went with my friend Dan to a “Conscious Fathering” class in the University district a couple of weeks ago. Most of it was about what to expect—how to change a diaper, how to pick up a …
Player to be Named Later
My wife and I have signed up with Open Adoption and Family Services. We’re eagerly anticipating adopting a child. So, about eagerly: I’m 42 years old. I find myself trying to judge the …
Speech to Text
This is the first blog post I am writing by to my computer. I am speaking each sentence into the microphone and the computer transcribes what I am saying into text. I am not editing the text by hand, …
Habits
Writing in this blog used to be one of my habits and then it wasn’t. I would like to make it a habit again, so I’m thinking a lot about habits. Good habits, bad habits and the habits we …
Welcome Back to the Almanack
I’m going to try to give this blog another spin. It’s been a while since I wrote here, and some significant stuff has happened. I got married to a wonderful woman, Taya Hall We signed up …