Live Interview Event on YouTube

FacXYZ Day Of Alert This was originally an alert page for the live interview. I'll leave the original copy, and then follow with a link to the full interview on YouTube. If you're free this afternoon and want to break out of your usual routine, I'd love to have you join in on this live interview event.…

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prime time

brightly colored paper clocks First, let me say … Happy New Year to you! I do hope your holidays were happy and that you are filled with hope and purpose as another year begins. Leading up to the holidays this year, I’ve been thinking more than usual about time (and for me, "more than…

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tradition

The Best Advice So Far: tradition - ornaments on Christmas tree My friend Jed, whom I met this past year online, asked me if I'd be willing to write a short blog entry to be included on his site, wherein I would talk about one of my favorite holiday traditions. For anyone who…

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how to get a shot

getting a shot - The Best Advice So Far Today, I want to tell you how a seemingly simple thing – a photo – came into being. But zooming out (see what I did there?), it's really about how opportunity happens. I’m the kind of person who never had trouble with those old creative…

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in between

in between 2 - The Best Advice So Far So, Thanksgiving was last week. Using my superpower-status deductive reasoning skills, I’ve concluded with reasonable certainty that Thanksgiving, then, is not also this week. And what a relief that revelation is! Sure, sure, I had a wonderful…

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our gang: part 2

our gang part 2 - Best Advice So Far In May, I wrote a post called “our gang,” which turned out to be one of the most read, shared and discussed posts in my more than four years of blogging. This Thursday having been Thanksgiving, I got to hang with “our gang” again; and it prompted…

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impossible

impossible - Escher stairway - The Best Advice So Far For those of you who don’t yet know, I’ve moved. As in just moved – last weekend. (In fact, that is why there was no post last Friday.) There is an awful lot I could tell you about the months-long process of apartment hunting, the…

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becoming

red and white shoes walking a black and white train track In last week’s post, I told you that a college student I used to mentor interviewed me for a paper he’s writing on “The Happiest Person You Know.” But I also mentioned in the same post that I haven’t always been the happy sort. If…

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