One otherwise-average Fri­day after­noon my friend Ari­anne called from the Safe­way two streets away. “Kelsey Gram­mer,” the famous actor from Frasier, “is com­ing!” I’m not sure if this gives you any sense of how small my home­town is? It’s small enough that some­one famous can be spot­ted well before they pass the “Wel­come to Fort […]

A doc­u­men­tary on liv­ing hap­pily recently aired on PBS. A lot of the clips from the show (called This Emo­tional Life) are avail­able on YouTube (here). Here’s an inter­est­ing one on inti­macy: This par­tic­u­lar insight (from Eliz­a­beth Gilbert) was inter­est­ing to me partly because I’m read­ing her book Eat, Pray, Love at the moment. The […]

These ‘’Com­mand­ments’’ are actu­ally just life  lessons. They are reminders to myself about my favorite insights into how to keep myself happy and mov­ing for­ward. 1) A clear tar­get I’ve found it’s not enough to try hard, if you’re not work­ing toward a clear out­come. Every­one says this, but I like it because, if I’ve […]

Check out this music video from the group Ok Go. Mes­mer­iz­ing. Cool, huh? It reminds me of Feist’s 1234 video and the tread­mill video –also by Ok Go. These guys have it fig­ured out. There is some­thing sub­tly com­pelling about these videos. I can watch them over and over again. I think we appre­ci­ate seeing […]

Find­ing a way to be artis­tic can add tremen­dously to your qual­ity of life. For most of us, much of our active time every day is dom­i­nated by task-completion-activities, things that aren’t par­tic­u­larly mean­ing­ful or impor­tant to us, but just have to get done. Cre­ative prac­tice is about mak­ing a time for mean­ing. Here are some ben­e­fits of a cre­ative practice: