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Dealing with Death

November 16, 2018

Dealing with Death Last Friday my mom died. We had a complicated relationship, to say the least. She had a heart attack four days earlier and was in the...

Vote!

November 2, 2018

Vote! Unless you have been living under a huge rock lately, you probably know that we are approaching the midterm elections. The closer we come to the...

Minimalism

October 14, 2018

Minimalism Most people associate spring with cleaning time, but lately it has become on my mind more and more. Really it has been on my mind for a while, but...

Happy Birthday

October 6, 2018

Happy Birthday This week and today (October 6th) bring about my birthday. I decided that I was going to take it easy this week. I still don’t want to break...

Checking Back on Goals

September 29, 2018

Checking Back on Goals I have brought up my book goal a few times lately, but today I am taking a different approach. While I have been trying to get through...

The Blank Page

September 24, 2018

The Blank Page This week has been more of a struggle for me than it should have been. Obviously, this newsletter is much later than usual. Even now as I am...

A Few Thoughts

September 14, 2018

A Few Thoughts This week I just a few random thoughts to share, so let’s get into it. I mentioned a couple of weeks ago that I had fallen behind on my...

Doubt

September 8, 2018

Doubt I recently (an hour ago) watched the Mr. Rogers documentary; Won’t You Be My Neighbor. I have many takeaways from this that I am sure will come up in...

Reading and Attention

August 31, 2018

Reading and Attention One of my goals this year was to read 25 books, I am way behind. Don’t get me wrong, I am still going to try and pull it off, but I...

Input Methods

August 24, 2018

Input Methods Ideas come at all sorts of random times. For me, many of these times when my brain starts working on random thoughts are when I am doing...

Giving Yourself a Few Constraints

August 17, 2018

Giving Yourself a Few Constraints When you do things a certain way, often you don’t think about how other people do things, and you just assume that the way...

Our Hierarchy of Needs

August 10, 2018

One of the things that led me to want to get back into doing my newsletter is that I felt this creative itch lately. I just felt like something was missing,...

Welcome Back to The Polymath Group

August 2, 2018

Hey there, welcome back to The Polymath Group. It has been some time since I have put out a newsletter, but we are going to change that now. You may notice a...

Some Thoughts on Facebook

April 27, 2018