Muscles don’t grow when you lift weights. In fact, muscles get broken when you lift weights. The point at which muscles do their growing is during rest. The same holds true for academic work. Have you ever studied hard at a subject only to get frustrated by your progress because more work isn’t producing [...]
You aren’t like me, and I’m not like you. Different things motivate us, and neither you nor I will find the same things personally rewarding. But, for sure, something motivates you, something stokes your passion, and there’s something you’ve been dreaming of doing and haven’t done yet. It’s hard, at least for me, and I [...]
We all have a hated rival, someone who we’d like to crush into the dirt, someone we’d love to claim victory over once and for all. Rivalries, though, by definition, don’t lend themselves to happy outcomes like that. Rivalries pit two people of similar abilities against each other, thereby creating a see saw competition. [...]
I’ll bet there aren’t many people who lament the decline of old fashioned log cabins or thatched roofs. Imagine the effort it took to build a log cabin, and imagine the comfort it provided in comparison to today’s suburban housing monstrosities. I took a picture last summer of a little brick house in Utah that [...]
Today we have another great post by Stefan Lanfer. He is a Boston-based dad of two, playwright, and foundation strategy guy. He blogs about “the big mysteries revealed in the small moments” of fatherhood at Dad Today, and about finding time and ways to hang in there with the work you are most passionate about, even when [...]
We’re all heretics in the backs of our minds to some degree, even if social pressures make us act in ways that can be at odds with our nature. Somewhere in there there’s an urge to step out of line, to walk in a different direction, walk a little off course, or to temporarily veer off, stop, [...]
The Associated Press has reported (here) that an Oregon couple gave out condoms to teenaged trick or treaters on Halloween in an attempt to “promote health”. It came to light when the father of a 14 year old girl took offense and said something. The couple, for their part, says it was a mistake [...]
I have an old, stubborn rabbit. He used to be young, bouncy and playful, but these days he can be accurately described as stubborn (yet still totally loveable!). For 6 years Mr. B (his name) had free reign of the house, bouncing around everywhere as he pleased. A year ago, though, we were forced to confine him to [...]
Kids still have school dances? I guess so because a school in Bellevue, Ohio, has put a halt to future dances after a bunch of supposedly salacious pictures from the last dance surfaced on Facebook (here’s the article about it). I don’t know the details other than the accusation that the kids were dancing inappropriately, [...]
Newsweek’s cover story this week is entitled “Men’s Lib”. It profiles how modern men are finding new and creative ways to be useful in society, and how real trendsetting men are redefining the outdated, worn stereotype of what makes a man. What is manly? It isn’t carrying an ax, wearing overalls, and acting like [...]
Maybe you’re good to your teeth and gums and you floss every day, but I’m not. Yes, I admit it. I don’t floss every day. So I am particularly concerned about a certain article I read yesterday in Natural Health Magazine. David Shuch D.D.S explained the consequences of not flossing and how brushing is good but doesn’t [...]
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