5 tips for choosing your attitude
First, a reminder that opinions here are mine, not my employer’s. We’ve all heard the phrase “choose your attitude.” Most frequently, it’s used in response…
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Fuck busy; remember what’s important
If I’m honest with myself, I’m feeling a little roots-less this week. In mid-June, we took a final trip to the house I grew up…
What’s YOUR secret?
In order for any of this to make sense, you need to click on that photo of Mackenzie above and spend eight minutes watching her…
Learning about moderation from fire
One of the things I’ve been doing to relax this winter is putting a fire in the fireplace. I can sit with a book, or…
Be amazing at it while it’s yours
I get the feeling there are a lot more lazy people in the world than mediocre people. At least, I hope so. I’d like to…
Charles Barkley was right: The decline of sport as a noble endeavor
During the summer of 2010, as basketball fans waited for a really big free agent season to pan out, the Miami Heat re-signed their star…
Honor among thieves
When I first started on the college newspaper as opinion editor (1999ish), I wrote a piece about the recently arrested-and-jailed Unabomber, Ted Kaczynski. You might…
10 Septembers, 20 Septembers
Revolutions happen overnight; apathy takes time. We’re approaching the tenth anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, hijackings. This was a one-morning, shock-and-awe event. We all…
Jason’s homemade brocolli calzones
This is a recipe by Jason, a Syracuse attorney known on Twitter as @jaseface1. I’m not usually a recipe kinda guy, but I’ll mix it…
Taking the hippie out of permaculture
Call a person a “futurist,” and everybody crowds around to hear a tale of doom – and maybe what we can do to avoid it.…