Living
Life is hard. And full. And awesome. Live it.
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The Law Doesn’t Convict
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4 min read
We often treat the laws we all live by as neutral and self-enforcing. They are neither. All laws are written, legislated, and enforced by humans. Often with very different understandings of what they mean. Therefore laws don’t simply arrive. Nor do they simply begin – or pre-exist us. And we all know that laws don’t…
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Saving Time
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6 min read
Returning to Standard Time brings disruption. How much disruption it brings, however, is debatable. And we do debate. Arguing over that one hour—where it goes, when to take it, how to plan it—is a cultural phenomenon we experience twice a year, every year. Scientists have even studied the effects of shifting in and out of…
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The never-ending Halloween
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2 min read
I live in a community that really loves Halloween. Halloween, of course, is a day: October 31. But here, we celebrate with trick-or-treating over two days, with hours long past my children’s curfew. We also have a downtown celebration the Friday night before, so this year, that makes it October 29th, 30th, and 31st. And…
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Starting out will always be hard
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1 min read
The trick is to never start. This sounds like terrible advice. And it is, out of the wider context. Which is actually the source of most of our struggle: context. Getting started is always hard. There is no getting around it. Doing something for the first time, starting a project, starting your week, starting a…
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Why I Need Space
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4 min read
I usually beat myself up for not getting everything on my to-do list done. This is a ritual process that occurs daily. Usually before lunch, again sometime around two, then again at four, at dinner, and then sometime before bed. It’s a habit; and it’s a bad one. Behind this sense of unease is not…
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Enough isn’t a measurement
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2 min read
It’s a declaration. When we say that we don’t have enough money to pay for something we want, we aren’t taking a measurement. The measurement is done. We look at the total given to us by our bank. Then we compare that amount to the price of something. And we evaluate. Even such a simple…