A Life That Matters
I turned 66 this week. Birthdays don’t normally cause any particular reflection… I’ve had a lot of them at this point, and I’ve got reflection built into my life, so birthdays aren’t a trigger for that. But this year, there was…
I turned 66 this week. Birthdays don’t normally cause any particular reflection… I’ve had a lot of them at this point, and I’ve got reflection built into my life, so birthdays aren’t a trigger for that. But this year, there was…
Our lives are enriched by our passions. As we become interested in something, we learn more about it. If it’s a practice, as we do it, we become more skilled. It’s fun to share these with others, and sometimes they also become intrigued. I…
One of the passages from my book take less. do more. that seems to be resonating with a lot of people is contained towards the end of Lesson 14. It’s about the story you tell yourself. Every life is filled with good and bad,…
I imagine we’ve all attended funerals, or memorials, or celebrations of life. It’s a chance to say goodbye to someone, to be with others that you shared that person’s life with. And if you’re in the Midwest, a chance to get some…
I’ve written before about what I call Secret Clubs. As we become interested in a particular topic or skill, we naturally learn more about it and/or get better at it through practice and experimentation. We get excited about the interest, and share it with…
I’m a big fan of use the Notes app on my phone, to capture things before I forget them, since I almost always have my phone nearby. I referenced this in previous post on Family Lexicon and in fact I use…
Part of the great adventure of writing my first book is the things I’ve learned and the people I’ve met. At least for me, it seems like usually when I admit that I don’t know something (which is quite often),…
Five-plus years ago when we moved to Bend, I started the process of connecting with new health care professionals. It’s not a fun process, trying to figure out the best people to see for your particular situation in a new…
I was walking along the Alpe Adria Trail in 2022, strolling with a friend on the trip through a forested section in Slovenia, and in the course of our conversation, I mentioned ‘family lexicon’. She asked me what I meant by…
I could tell Luke, our then-four-year-old neighbor, was trying to work out something by the intent, scrunched-up look on his face. He and his sister, nine-year-old Delilah, loved to come to our new house in Bend because it had three…
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