Happiness is …

by Barbara on January 10, 2010

being in a situation where the only thing standing between you and the rewards and experiences you desire are shortcomings you recognize and are eager to confront.

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Pulling a Geographic

by Barbara on December 28, 2009

I blog from the air. It’s a slow journey to the location-free, time-free lifestyle I imagined when I was a kid. The technology that enables it is falling into place, though. In the late 1970s, submitting work from an airplane to clients in two states was not possible.

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Serious Play

December 20, 2009

Made the acquaintance of a young senior, a 65-year-old woman. I mentioned this morning that I was on my way to an exercise class. She said that her husband stopped exercising completely when he left the military – and a few years back, died in his early sixties of a heart attack.
“So many of [...]

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On Being a Regular Guy

November 11, 2009

I stumbled across a blogger who commented (with seeming surprise) that the founder of Google “seemed like a regular guy.” In my experience, many highly successful people come across this way if you meet them in private. People with confidence in themselves seem to leap over the vast middle in most arenas – bad haircuts, [...]

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Note to My Spin Instructor

October 12, 2009

The time spent playing air guitar and doing karaoke might have been better spent:

checking in with people in the class about their health issues
telling people how to set up the bike
educating the class about the hand positions
leading guided breathing exercises
supplying enough information about heart rate zones and how to measure them that people would have [...]

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Seattle – So Far, So Good

September 10, 2009

I can’t help but noticing that the housing situation here in Seattle seems much better than in San Francisco. Is it “cheap”? No, that’s a myth. But it seems people have a relatively easy time finding something affordable, getting into a place that allows pets, and making a home without insane roommate situations.

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Six-Word Memoir

September 1, 2009

Golden Road. No car; I walked.

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Getting My Preppie On

August 14, 2009

I am too cheap to buy the book that contains Carol Bly’s essay, “How Radiation Oncology Almost Made Me a Republican”, but I’ve always been intrigued by the teaser quote from the piece on her Web site:
“What makes someone act like a conservative? I finally—these four years later—have figured it out. For those forty-five [...]

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An Obligatory Check-In

August 9, 2009

I’ve been neglecting this blog but for good reason. Started working on some fun and all-consuming projects for Microsoft and planning a move to the North.

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Meet the New Boss … Not the Same as the Old Boss?

July 26, 2009

This suggests an entirely different role for all people in the “socializing” professions – teachers, therapists, managers – that they will be stripped of their charge to enforce rules and extract specific behaviors from people. Instead they will be equal co-creators building environments that others can build in.

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