Musings on Dance, Food, Geek Stuff
On Friday, I got this email. You’ve probably gotten similar ones. EMAIL HEADER: You’ve Been Selected (Earn Free Gift!) to Participate in Our Consumer Feedback Program Free Clear Bathroom Scale for feedback. We take product design seriously and we love getting feedback from customers like you. Help us improve by following the steps below to…
Last weekend, I had the pleasure of watching the show “Taylor Mac’s Holiday Sauce” at the Curran Theater with my friend Liz. Taylor Mac is a performance artist, drag queen, singer, and MacArthur Fellow. “Holiday Sauce” takes a fresh, critical, queer / liberal / feminist view of Christmas traditions and music, as told by a…
I got to practice changing my self-talk yesterday, after I picked up my scooter from the shop. When I arrived, what I thought was a $500 set of repairs and a tuneup turned out to be closer to $700. That was a lot more money than I had hoped to pay. During the scooter ride…
An older figure I know has devoted his entire life to his profession. He’s excellent at it. It’s also the only thing he has practiced with any kind of dedication or passion for the last 40 or so years of his life. So now that he is in retirement age, he doesn’t have much else…
I just finished Designing Your Life by Bill Burnett and Dave Evans. A present from a good friend (Thanks, Barry!), it comes at a perfect time in my life, as I contemplate a career shift. Designing Your Life is essentially a guide to applying a design-thinking process to career planning. As someone who has done…
I’ve been riding my scooter Bella for a few years now, wearing whatever heavy jacket I had available. But none of them were proper riding jackets, built to withstand the rigors of scooting around the city. Well it was high time I upgraded. After a lot of research and trying on a bunch of cycle…
Sometimes the Internet is a depressing place. Full of trolls, creeps and evildoers. But sometimes it makes cool stuff happen, like today. Gemini is a young woman who saw my post about creating a Janet Jackson "Rhythm Nation" costume and used it to make her own wonderful version of it. She just sent me the…
I've been thinking about the things that I think I excel at. I don't mean specific skills or talents, like dancing or public speaking, although that is certainly important. I am thinking more about broad buckets of strengths that I have. Here's what I've come up with so far. Active Listening I'm a good listener….
It's been a strange year for a lot of people including myself, with a lot of drama and ups and downs. That said, I have a lot to be thankful for in 2016. Here's a pictorial recap of some of my favorite moments in the year. Dancing Dancing was a huge part of 2016, which…
Channeling some Lin-Manuel Miranda today. Good morning. Eyes up. Hearts up. Minds sharp. Compassion on full blast. (Sips coffee)Okay let's go. — Lin-Manuel Miranda (@Lin_Manuel) July 8, 2016