The story you are about to read is true. The names have not been changed because there are no innocents, just a half-century milestone we’re thrilled to be marking and a legendary party about which some people would prefer we don’t speak. To celebrate properly, and excise old demons, speak we must. Our story begins [...]
Earlier this year I attended a class in Mindful Meditation, taught by Pandit Dasa, a Mindful Leadership and wellbeing expert who has written books and traveled the world spreading his message of Conscious Living. I'm pretty sure I failed. Though I kept yanking it back, I simply could not keep my toddler mind from wandering [...]
My friend Angie mused a little during our Wednesday morning bootcamp. "You know," she said between impressive plyo jacks. "If you squint from a distance, the snowy bushes can look like flowering dogwood trees." This is what it's come to here in the Midwest, where spring takes its ever-lovin' time. We delude ourselves. One year, [...]
Dear Snow, We’re through. I apologize for the bluntness of that sentence, but I need to make you understand. I can’t do this anymore. Our relationship hasn't been good for a while now and, you know what? It isn’t me. It’s you. You drop in uninvited, leave your stuff everywhere, and, even when I obviously [...]
A highlight of our recent trip to Los Angeles was the morning we spent working crew for a Pure & Weary production. With Vince operating the boom and me monitoring the camera, we spent a pleasant, though somewhat exhausting, morning watching them work. We still don't know what a "best boy" or "key grip" is, [...]
