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Wonder of Wonders, Miracle of Miracles

So my eye doctor said I wasn’t crying enough. Actually he said I had “chronic dry eyes,” which he attributed to living in a place with zero humidity and temperatures up to 120 degrees. Dry heat, my Aunt Fannie. The surface of the sun has dry heat, too; you don’t see astronauts frolicking around up - Continue Reading

Is It Time For You to Take Some Minimum Days?

This week I recalled a procedure that once regulated my life. I call it “Minimum Days.” A more accurate title would be “adrenal burnout recovery days.” Lately, I’ve come to believe almost everyone needs it from time to time. Here are some symptoms of adrenal burnout, all of which were ragingly evident for me these - Continue Reading

WHERE DID ALL THESE FUNCTIONAL PEOPLE COME FROM?

I know that in calendar terms, I’ve only just arrived at our literal and figurative summit (more than 9,000 feet above sea level, in Keystone, Colorado). My lungs keep reminding me, “This fluff you’re breathing is pathetic! Where did all the oxygen go?” But my mind and soul feel as if they’ve been here for - Continue Reading

Photos From the Force

This is the most fabulous life I’ve ever had, but oh, my, is it busy! Sometimes I feel like Lucy Ricardo in the chocolate factory, juggling projects with both hands, carrying several in my teeth, dropping dozens. I suspect you know how this feels. In the age of speedspeedspeedspeedspeed, we’re all struggling to keep our - Continue Reading

How Peter Walsh Saved Me From Vlad Eye, Clutter, and Overwork

Yesterday I looked at my fancy-schmancy online calendar and realized it contained less free time than a maximum-security prisoner gets to wander around the yard stabbing people. I also noticed my growing inclination to stab people myself. TIME TO DECLUTTER! It’s no coincidence that my computer screen is a blizzard of open documents, and that - Continue Reading

Fellow Airport Hobo

Just when you think you’re the only person who feels the way you do, you see someone you just know is having to cope with all the same life stresses. I have no idea who this woman is, but I take great comfort in her very existence: A fellow Airport Hobo. Makes me well right - Continue Reading

Go Ahead, Ask For Help!

By and large, things aren’t nearly as bad as we think they are. Our futures aren’t as chancy, our financial survival not as precarious, our detractors not as ferocious as we fear. But sometimes, when we get really stumped, we have good reason. This has happened to me with vlogs. About a month ago I - Continue Reading

United By Dork Fears We Waddle

Last week I attended a marvelous birthday bash for my South African friend Sal Roux. Sal threw her party at a game preserve called Phinda, in a “sand forest” where the trees stand like cathedral pillars under an eerie green canopy, and you never know how many animal eyes are watching as you pad your - Continue Reading

Dig These Odds!

So this morning I got a personal tour through the most incredible find in paleoanthropological discovery of my lifetime, quite possibly ever. Dr. Lee Berger himself walked me and two friends through the museum display of a hominid skeleton that might belong to one of my own direct relatives. The visit left my mind reeling, - Continue Reading

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