We all know kids who are out of control. We all know adults who are out of control. And we all don’t want to have those kids or be those adults. Enter: mindfulness. I’ve posted numerous times on this topic only because it’s extremely important to me. There’s the post on Building Emotional Intelligence, based […]
Finding Your Voice
This post is for all my writer friends out there. If you go (or have gone) to writers’ workshops, you’ll know that the topic of voice is high up on the list of must-haves. Supposedly, though, it’s an elusive thing, something you’ll know only when you’ve found it. Something that’ll make the best agent or […]
If There Is No God
I don’t understand the argument below. Do you? Please enlighten me. I’d give Geisler and Turek a hard time about it, but this kind of argument is rampant in all the existential literature (on all sides), and I, for one, am flummoxed concerning it. The following excerpt is from I Don’t Have Enough Faith To […]
Intentional Writing
I get lots of questions about writing—the craft of it, what my work day is like, how to begin a project. For those of you who are local (Twin Cities area or SE MN), I’m teaching a class on August 25th, from 6 to 9 p.m., at Crossings at Carnegie. I’m including the class info […]
Check This Out
Delightful things for this beautiful Tuesday morning. Here’s the artist Jean-Pierre Blanchard painting a portrait of Roger Federer at the presentation of the SVC Entrepreneur Award in Zurich. Done in 4 minutes! The painting was auctioned for charity. You can read more of the story here. [Thanks, Sara!] McSweeney’s is coming out with a […]