Today’s Words:
manipulate
feeble
ahead
oatmeal
involve
incidental
grace
Grace is this fundamental concept that was missing from my consciousness as a child. I’ve had to learn it, slowly, haltingly, with great effort. What is grace? It is that which is the nature of the Cosmos and life itself: a gift. Something freely given, but which you cannot contrive to receive. More abundant that you […]

Today’s Words:
draconian
slither
pillage
yet
fraught
accolades
coalesce
Ah, fraught. My favorite word.
Giving accolades is fraught. How to celebrate without elevating, how to honor without those betters and worses slithering in? In NVC you bring it all back to the specific, to the here and now I feel happy and gratitude. Not “you are so great”, not generalizing into an abstraction […]

Today’s Words:
laconic
paper
amorous
lacking
ineffective
get on with
bone
Get on with it! You’ve been lurking in the amorous section of the paper for weeks, cutting out ads, piecing together phrases. If you’re worried about an ineffective presentation you might as well experiment, you’re not lacking in imagination. For fucks sake, Mom!
Young man, go toss out the trash, the ham bone […]

Today’s Words:
mullet
debutante
apply
ruddy
guest
bargain
muck
My dad’s response to advertising was “I’ll sell you some cowpies at a bargain price.” I guess he was saying that just because it’s on sale doesn’t mean it’s not shit.
I’m sure there are some life lessons to be drawn from this but just now I’m pulling a blank. People buy manure you know. […]

Today’s Words:
probation officer
plump oneself
dim
domicile
opiate
Post-purchase rationalization
groom
Jim hated being a probation officer. If he had ever imagined a career for himself as a child, he was sure it wasn’t this. Perhaps he had wanted to be a travelling carnival hand, or a backup musician for Sting. Perhaps he had wanted to go to the moon. He couldn’t […]

for the last year i have been going to petfinder.com to locate various dogs i might be interested in adopting.  i haven’t gotten too serious, except i did send an application in for a dog named cowboy, but he got adopted while my application was in transit.
he was very cool looking.  he had the holstein […]

Today’s Words:
rose-light
extremities
prophetess
palaver
elemental
perfect game
disambiguate
So I’m reading people’s GTD systems and I’m struck by this realization: these are people who work 8 hours a day. If I maintained a GTD list, I would be spending half of my work time updating it. I just don’t work that much. I work when I feel like it. Mostly I […]

what would you expect, since it’s only 5 a.m., of course it’s still dark.  i’m up earlier than usual so i took my dog out.  i’ve been succumbing somewhat to my winter laziness lately so the first outing of the day with dog consisted of a short trip to the backyard.  there i let loose […]

hi, we got a buttload of snow.  it’s out there right now.  if i wanted to look out the window i could see it, in all its ugly urban glory.
but i’m pretending here inside.
i ain’t been writing cause i’ve been too excited this week.  i’ve had a one track mind, if you will.  it’s cause […]

Today’s Words:
homophile
Patsy Cline
insectivorous
pug
spiteful
nick
sprinkle
I’ve been watching Sliders, which is this old TV show from, oh, the nineties maybe, where these folks get stuck sliding from parallel universe to parallel universe trying to find their way home. And each parallel Earth is similar-but-different. They meet their doubles and doppelganger hijinks ensue. So in one of those worlds, […]