Today’s AP story “Storm blankets West with snow, ice glazes Midwest” includes a photo showing 17-year old Brandon Baxter plowing Thompson Street, in front of our house. The AP reporter who took this photo must’ve been standing more or less in our driveway when he composed the shot:


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Happy holidays, everyone.

The holidays can be an awkward time, sometimes, figuring out what to do for whom. But once in a while you see someone hit the ball so far out of the park, you remember why it’s worth trying in the first place.

On that note, Los Angeles composer Mike Shapiro just made my evening by sending out this little ditty, which he ( Read more... )

This morning I ordered one of these, within minutes of its release.

Single-slab aluminum construction, LED backlighting, solid-state drive.

Should arrive next week.

My first Mac.

Originally published at Mudita Journal. Please leave any comments there.

I’m selling my car. Drives extremely smooth and I rather like it, but we’re moving to Reno Carson City on July 1st and we only want to bring one of our cars with us.


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I had a dream recently where I went down a rabbit hole and found a people true to themselves.

I wrote down the dream, and one day may share it here. In the interim, here’s one passage that particularly intrigued me:

The community itself was a conscious exercise in trueness. When someone stole, for example, no one got upset, least of all the ( Read more... )

I had a fantastic time in Los Angeles this past weekend.

I spent Thursday and Friday nights with Kylae, collaborating on a delicious batch of chilaca bowls, decimating the Santa Monica stairs, and reflecting together on life, love, and how to make it through those rougher spells.

Saturday afternoon, I drove to Belvedere Junior High School, where my ( Read more... )

I keep a running list, inside my PDA, of my all-time favorite movies.

Tonight it occurred to me that, in addition to being immensely valuable to me for spiritual reasons, the list is also quite easy to share with friends and readers of Mudita Journal.

Perhaps some of you would be interested.

So I’ve put the list online, here.

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After spending several years as cobbler’s children, Kathy and I have recently updated our own web site for Zoom Strategies, to reflect our increasing focus on commercial web development.

The new site includes an updated portfolio, team bios (including new team member Marshall Sontag), and testimonials from many of our happy clients:


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When I was a freshman in college, and still quite on fire over my discovery of Ayn Rand’s novels, I remember cautiously bringing the subject up with my grandmother, during a phone conversation.

“Lately I’ve really gotten into Ayn Rand’s novels,” I said. “Have you ever read them - The Fountainhead or Atlas Shrugged?”

I expected her to react, as ( Read more... )

Kathy’s birthday is this weekend, and to celebrate the occasion we’re heading off to the High Feather Ranch B&B, on the other side of the Sandia Mountains from Albuquerque.

In general, we’ve decided to indulge in monthly trips to a B&B as part of our work/life/love schedule. Unfortunately, our weekend at the Hacienda Vargas last month really wasn’ ( Read more... )