Unplugging Becoming Unpopular & Uncool

Posted On: October 5, 2018
Comments: One Response We all see it often: The idiot driving in front of you is all over the map—breaking and swerving, so unnerving. When this happened to me yesterday, my car-model prognosis surmised this person might be…

Merry Christmas…In a Box! (The Annual Holiday Rant)

Posted On: December 18, 2017
Comments: No Responses The Amazon Christmas ad running lately features smiling, otherwise faceless boxes travelling from a robo-warehouse to a little girl. It’s a fine ad that no doubt brought prosperous smiles to some ad agency. And that…

5 Confessions from a Cancer Novice

Posted On: January 8, 2017
Comments: 14 Responses Yep, that’s a selfie. One of maybe 5 I’ve taken of myselfie. Ish. But my kids take lousy pics (of their dad) and still don’t do what they’re told, so what’s a guy to do?…

11 Survival Strategies for Tough Times

Posted On: September 23, 2016
Comments: 6 Responses Dr. Nostril and I had another confab and cranial camera-probing yesterday. And he was again excited about what he didn’t see, “There is NO sign of that (golfball-sized) tumor in there!” he exclaimed as we…

The Sounds (& Sights) of Silence

Posted On: April 18, 2014
Comments: No Responses This morning, I woke up too early. The wind had been whistling and whirring for hours. And when I headed down the hallway, the cold breeze that sneaks through lake-facing windows chilled me. Then I…

Leisure Studies 2: R&R Meditation

Posted On: May 31, 2013
Comments: 2 Responses “Meditation goes mainstream” shouted the headline in yesterday’s local paper. Then followed a lengthy article about the many benefits (some now proven by science!) and how the practice has become embraced by employers, schools, churches,…

Keeping up with our Tech Joneses

Posted On: January 16, 2013
Comments: No Responses “NOT in MY house!” So goes an old saying. And in MY house, those NOTS include a short but do-able list of guidelines for Sundays: > No working. > No obsessing on tech toys. >…

11 New! Improved! Ways to Unplug

Posted On: February 16, 2012
Comments: No Responses Go to NOLA and become a world-class freeze-mime for tips on Bourbon Street.  Like she did —–> As Kempt suggests, when out with buddies, stack your phones on the table; the first one to grab…

A Conversation Peace

Posted On: November 11, 2011
Comments: No Responses Our local paper (remember those?) ran a story recently about a young man named Taylor Baldry who sets up a proper table near a popular walking path, and invites passersby to stop for a Free…

Unplugging: Mission Impossible?

Posted On: July 23, 2011
Comments: No Responses Some of us preach the Gospel of Sabbatical and insist your career will be fine—no, better!—with breaks.  I try to apply that lifestyle to my daily grind, which leads to a stubborn regimen of outdoor…