Lately, I feel like I have the attention span of a five year old in a toy store built inside of a candy shop located on a playground. Yep.
The internet is doing me in. Instead of being able to focus on one thing for a long time, I need about 10 things to keep me [...]

So I bought my first manual typewriter. On my desk, alongside my desktop computer, sits a vintage Smith-Corona Sterling manual typewriter. How did I find it? Glad you asked.

. . . Because really, there’s no reason not to.

The old Quaker hymn says :
“‘Tis the gift to be simple, ’tis the gift to be free
‘Tis the gift to come down, where we ought to be.
And if we find ourselves in the place just right
‘Twill be in the valley of love and delight.”
In other words, life is better when it’s simple. But how do [...]

Some people have amazing stories about escaping death. Mine isn’t too remarkable, but it scared the shit out of me. So I’m sharing it.

I enjoy playing guitar, running, and cooking good food. At what point, though, can something you love to do become something that you can do for a living?
In other words, when can a hobby become a career?

“Life may change us, but we begin and end with family.”

Does your brain shut down in the summer? Mine does. I don’t intend it to happen, but it does.
A nap in the afternoon is followed by lazy reading into dinner time. The day stands still while I let my brain idle. In the evening I pick up my pace and get a few things done, [...]

Blackberries, computers, and iPhones. Technology moves forward, and I wonder whether we are left behind.
I’m always amazed when I think about the accomplishments of previous generations – you know, the ones that didn’t have a computer. How did they do it? And what can we learn from them?
When I read technology blogs, productivity gadgets pique [...]