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Words Aren’t Always the Answer

by Jacqueline Johnson on April 30, 2008

When we honestly ask which persons in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving much advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a gentle and tender hand. The friend who can be silent […]

How to Track What You’re Listening to

by Lindsey Anderson on April 29, 2008

Obviously iTunes does a pretty good job of keeping track of how many times you’ve listened to this or that track. And they can even make music recommendations for you based on your purchases from their music store.
But last·fm not only tracks your most played songs, they offer you artist recommendations, concert dates, music videos, and a […]

The World is Just Awesome

by Edward Atkinson on April 26, 2008

This is the Discovery Channel’s new commercial. It makes me smile, and it also made me hit Replay a couple of times.

Perspectives

by Lindsey Anderson on April 25, 2008

First, go visit your Great Grandmother, or someone else who will tell you fascinating stories about your family history, or life as it was eighty or one hundred years ago.
Then, go home and watch Everything is Illuminated.
And realize that the world as you know it right now is nothing like the world that others know.
And […]

How to Be Patient

by Lindsey Anderson on April 23, 2008

Yesterday I panicked after I paid three large bills. I thought “I need to make money, right now, today.” I thought of calling some of my old places of part time employment to see if I could fill in for anyone for the rest of this week. I thought of writing a few chapters on […]

In Honor of Spring

by Lindsey Anderson on April 21, 2008

I thought about putting a bunch of excerpts from springy poems here with links to this and that, but that seems so messy.

So I think I will leave you with my favorite Walt Whitman poem instead.

The First Dandelion
Simple and fresh and fair from winter’s close emerging,
As if no artifice of fashion, business, politics, had ever […]

Do, Don’t Be.

by Jacqueline Johnson on April 18, 2008

We don’t become known for being; we become known for doing.

On trust: publish your ideas now and don’t stop

by Edward Atkinson on April 16, 2008

The best time to look for a job next year is right now. The best time to plan for a sale in three years is right now. The mistake so many marketers make is that they conjoin the urgency of making another sale with the timing to earn the right to make that sale. In […]

How to Know the Joy of Audiobooks

by Lindsey Anderson on April 15, 2008

In recent years, I have found myself reading less and less. I think it all started when … hmm, yes, I think it was when I started college. Reading was included in homework - read twenty pages for Sociology, fifteen for Human Communication, fifty for Rhetorical Theory, and so on. There was hardly room for a […]

The Writer’s Almanac

by Lindsey Anderson on April 13, 2008

The Writer’s Almanac
This site is neat. For example, I can find out today that it’s the birthday of the guy that invented Scrabble, Alfred M. Butts.
There is also a poem featured for the day.
Another cool daily site is Daily Poetry. They will send you a poem a day. This was a great way to discover […]

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