I came home from wintery snow country to temperatures close to 90 degrees. It’s spring here. It’s time to stir things up and clean out the grime. So don’t fight me on this. Just go along:
1. You are a nice person. You are doing your best. You are [...]
I finally got my schedule for the book tour I’m leaving on this Sunday.
OH. MY. GOSH.
Here’s just a sample from the middle of the tour:
4:45 AM Car service will pick me up at the hotel in Seattle to take me to the airport [...]
Look, there’s no way around it: I didn’t read a durn thing all week. Brought four books with me on vacation, but somehow reading never made it onto the schedule.
But this is a no-shame reading group, so I’ll set a good example by being nice to myself. We all do [...]
From Leonardo da Vinci:
“Every now and then go away,
have a little relaxation,
for when you come back
to your work
your judgment will be surer;
since to remain constantly at work
will cause you to lose power
of judgment . . .
Go some distance away
because the work appears smaller
and more of it
can be taken in at a glance,
and a lack of [...]
Remember how I said in that interview with Jules and Eisha at Seven Impossible Things Before Breakfast that my favorite word is swag?
Got some.
Every year there’s this film festival in Canada called the Banff Mountain Film Festival. People submit films dealing with the outdoors and outdoor sports. Usually there’s a variety of travel [...]
This is how sick blog-writing can become.
Yesterday while I was out cross-country skiing for the first time in my life, I had a few . . . unsettling moments. Moments when I was thinking I might have to use my newly-refreshed Wilderness First Responder skills.
And a part of me was [...]
Look, I know you people are hurting. And since I’m going cross-country skiing tomorrow, I won’t be all johnny-on-the-spot about moderating. So I thought maybe we could get this started now, rather than tomorrow. Because I know a lot of us need to get a few things off our chest.
For instance:
Last night’s [...]
Because there’s nothing I can say that is even as remotely entertaining as this.
Please read all the way to the end. You’ll be glad you did.
[And since I know a lot of you tape Lost then watch it the next day because it's on so late, we'll all withhold any discussion of that until [...]
I was walking past the Crested Butte post office today, and saw this notice on the bulletin board:
YOUNG MAN SEEKS SHELTER. FOR HE AND HIS DOG.
Yes, all you English majors, I see the improper use of “he,” but don’t you think this note has style? I mean, if you had a [...]
Yesterday Little Willow laid out this smack-down challenge about us all trying to read fifty books this year:
I would love to take part! I read an average of a book a day. Bring it on.
EEEP! Her name seems so gentle, but she’s obviously total burl when it comes to reading.
All [...]