Happy Independence Day!
Despite all the tough economic stuff we’ve been dealing with lately, what say we take a moment to think about what makes America special to us?
I’m a first generation immigrant turned naturalized American who came to this country almost 25 years ago to get an advanced education in the field I wanted to […]
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For the Americans out there, enjoy Independence Day! I spread my fair share of gloom and doom about ye olde Union, but it’s still the only functional democracy in North America. Except for Canada. And except for the last 16 years, we’ve all managed to pull together as a country to […]
A while ago I was reading Location Independent Living, and I came up with three questions that I had about actually implementing it with a family. Most of these questions probably would arise reading the now-famous Four Hour Work Week, too, but I have yet to read it. In my first post, I asked […]
A while ago I was reading Location Independent Living, and I came up with three questions that I had about actually implementing it with a family. Most of these questions probably would arise reading the now-famous Four Hour Work Week, too, but I have yet to read it. In my last post, I asked the […]
A while ago I was reading Location Independent Living, and I came up with three questions that I had about actually implementing it with a family. Most of these questions probably would arise reading the now-famous Four Hour Work Week, too, but I have yet to read it. First, a lot of people […]
It’s not possible.
Another nice little mindhack from The Secret:
I took a small rock I found in a box of childhood junk and I carry it in my pocket. Whenever I stick my hand in my pocket and touch it, I think of something I’m grateful for. That’s it. Yet at the same time, the result […]
The opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference.
- Elie Wiesel, Holocaust survivor and Nobel Laureate
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I’ve started work at a new client and the contrast between this client and a ‘normal’ company is severe. This company is reeling from multiple frauds, bad investments in the subprime mess, poor leadership and (in a […]
The following post originally appeared as a guest post on Mrs. Micah: Finance for a Freelance Life. In addition to a great blog of her own, she’s been a frequent and appreciated commentator here for a long time! She won a contest that I ran, and one of the prizes I […]
From Wikipedia:
The Cambrian explosion was the seemingly rapid appearance of most major groups of complex animals around 530 million years ago, as evidenced by the fossil record. This was accompanied by a major diversification of other organisms. Before about 580 million years ago, most organisms were simple, composed of individual cells occasionally organised into colonies. […]
I wrote this post for The Giving Hands a few months ago. I really liked writing it since I care deeply (although I have a long way to go in implementing my concern) about the environment and I don’t write much about it at brip blap. People took issue with my point about […]
In no particular order, with no particular theme, here are a few random simplification tips. Each one of them were ideas I had for separate posts, but they never really gelled, except #2, which was one of my early, early posts. Hopefully taken as a whole they provide a few simple ways to […]
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I was at a street fair last summer when Little Buddy was first toddling along and knew how to dance just by wobbling back and forth and waving his arms. We were walking with my parents and came across one of the booths playing some music.
If you haven’t ever been to […]
“The joy of having a baby today can only be expressed in two words: tax deduction.”
- Anonymous, via About.com
By the time most of you read this post, I will probably be sitting and waiting. Whether I’m sitting and waiting hand and foot on my wife and daughter or still waiting for the doctors to […]
Oh, young mind, how we envy you! The world is your oyster, and who doesn’t like oysters? Here you are, venturing out into the world. Freedom, independence, adventure are all just around the corner! Mom’s not there to do the laundry anymore, but who cares! Nobody will yell at you […]
Do you ever think what the world would be like without monkeys? Probably not. Do we need monkeys? We don’t eat them, or use them to plow our fields. They don’t spend money so they don’t help the economy, and the outside possibility always exists that they will develop intelligence and turn all of us […]
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In part 1 of this three-part series I talked about walking away from various responsibilities in your life. In part 2 I talked about whether it would be easy to leave them. Now I’m going to bring it together with my thoughts on “walking away from it all.”Would it […]
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Have you ever just wanted to chuck it all and walk away? To just walk away from your commitments and responsibilities and start over again somewhere else? Why didn’t you?
I started thinking about the practicalities of walking away from my entire life of responsibilities after learning an acquaintance had done […]
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This is a continuation of my series on Napoleon Hill’s book Think and Grow Rich that began last week.
Hill makes a brutal assessment in his book: in his experience, 98 out of 100 people lacked a well-defined purpose in life. Let’s take a step back and think about that: […]
I asked the other day what you’d do with a million dollars. Today I have my answer.
My grandmother is one of the most wonderful people in the world. She has brought joy and light into the lives of countless people throughout her life, myself included. Life dealt her a heavy blow this morning and she could […]
