I have been thinking rather obsessively about this the last three days ( Read more... )

Randy Pausch, a man almost exactly my age, died today at the age of 47. The New York Times wrote here:Randy Pausch, the Carnegie Mellon computer science professor whose last lecture became an Internet sensation and bestselling book, has died of pancreatic cancer. He was 47 ( Read more... )

A lot of thoughts have been swirling through my mind in the past month or so, and I've been thinking about trying to catch them and set them down in a post ( Read more... )

anam_cara told me about Soulcollaging, and I got so interested I ordered the book. This is another thing which could be really rewarding to do on the retreat. I'll need to assemble some of the materials to take with me ( Read more... )

This post at Positivity Blog [positivity_rss] caught my eye, and I've been thinking about it for the past day or two. Basically, the blogger, Paul Hannam, is talking about about the lessons which can be gleaned from the Bill Murray movie "Groundhog Day." (He wrote a book on the subject, The Magic of Groundhog Day.)In the movie "Groundhog Day," the main ( Read more... )

I know I'm late to the party, but this is my new personal theme song.

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( The Lyrics )

I've been rather quiet on LJ lately because we do a lot of family get-togethers in the week between Christmas and New Years. Our last hurrah for the holidays is our annual Twelfth Night breakfast; we'll probably take the decorations down after that. (I'd like to make this Twelfth Night cake, but alas, the girls will probably veto it since (horrors ( Read more... )

I have been thinking about the interior spaces of my own mind, if you will ( Read more... )

Well, we have safely arrived in Jackson Hole, and we're staying at the Snake River Lodge and Spa here with the rest of Rob's family (mother, step-dad and brothers and sisters and their kids, along with one cousin and her kids.) This entire trip was made possible by the generosity of Rob's mom and step-dad. They had planned to take us all to ( Read more... )

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