Vote with action

Vote with action

Choices we make and actions we take are votes for who we will become. One of the challenges is that it takes a while for the votes to be tallied. We can place votes for a long time and then wake up one day wondering where we went wrong. If we’re honest with...
Life in a beautiful state revisited

Life in a beautiful state revisited

It’s been more than a year since I wrote one of my favorite blog posts, Life in a beautiful state. The experience and reflection that inspired that post was so life-changing that I also wrote Life in a beautiful state – Part 2. Since then, I’ve been much...
Time suckage

Time suckage

Working on our website recently made me realize that technology can be like a time machine. I sit down to change a few things, then time seems to go by in a blink and I have accomplished little if anything. In a few sessions, I learned a bunch of things, but made no...
Fulfilling beats productive

Fulfilling beats productive

Trish and I killed the day yesterday by sleeping in, having a leisurely breakfast, then going on a long hike with Roli up Whitehorse Ledge and across to Cathedral Ledge. Although we didn’t have much to show for all the time we spent, it was a fulfilling way to spend...
Perfectly unexpected (by Trish)

Perfectly unexpected (by Trish)

Before writing my “How long is a piece of string?” blog post, I jokingly posed that question to Jim. Without batting an eye or missing a beat, he answered, very confidently… with a perfectly, unexpected answer… “As deep as a hole!?” We both got a...
RBF be gone!

RBF be gone!

Most people seem to have either resting bitch face (RBF) or resting nice face. I’m not sure what drives it, but I’ve been wondering whether it’s simply practice. The more often you hold an expression, the easier it becomes. Eventually, the expression you use most most...