August 2012
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July 2012
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“The problem with fiction is that it makes you believe in honorable people, when...”
– Elizabeth Acevedo (AcevedoPoetry) on Twitter
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Pinterest, Tumblr and the Trouble With ‘Curation’... →
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“We can never know what we want, because living only one life, we can neither...”
– The first sentence from The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
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“This is the thing: When you hit 28 or 30, everything begins to divide. You can...”
– Relevant magazine
June 2012
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“One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to do is to...”
– Woodrow Wilson
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“I have met older couples so happy they give me the vague impression that I’ll...”
– From “Let Me Grow Old With You” at Thought Catalog
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15 Things You Should Give Up To Be Happy
Here is a list of 15 things which, if you give up on them, will make your life a lot easier and much, much happier. We hold on to so many things that cause us a great deal of pain, stress and suffering – and instead of letting them all go, instead of allowing ourselves to be stress free and happy – we cling on to them. Not anymore. Starting today we will give up on all those things that no longer...
May 2012
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April 2012
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“This is my final recommendation: Think about the metric by which your life will...”
– Clayton M. Christensen in How Will You Measure Your Life? — Harvard Business Review
March 2012
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“Caminante, son tus huellas
el camino, y nada más;
caminante, no hay camino,...”
– From “Proverbios y cantares XXIX” in Campos de Castilla by Antonio Machado
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“Rules for Happiness: something to do, someone to love, something to hope for.”
– Immanuel Kant
February 2012
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Why Love Matters More (And Less) Than You Think by...
So, how was your Valentine’s Day? Me? I had an anti-Valentine’s day at my local bar with the ghost of Albert Camus, an existential crisis, and a decent bottle of wine. Here’s what occurred to the four of us while we were angsting out.
I’ve made the point before that our economy seems especially good at mass-producing toxic junk. Food that malnourishes us, entertainment...
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The shot gun house on Cambronne, 1994 →
The shot gun house on Cambronne eased into silence as the street lamps flickered on. Well, slipped into that naked sound that night makes at least. A sputtering old engine and tires over gravel. A young thief’s whistle as he saunters on home after a long day— working. Sleepy Memés cackling on the neighbor’s front porch, ice cubes chiming in their glasses of sweet tea. Light bugs buzzing...
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January 2012
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“If all you have is a hammer, everything in the world looks like a nail.”
– Unknown
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Watching Them Watching Me — Modern Love →
To celebrate our 25th anniversary, I had the videotape of our wedding converted into a DVD as a surprise for my wife. This was going to be a stay-at-home anniversary; we had splurged on our 20th knowing that by this year our oldest son would be frighteningly close to college. So a quiet dinner and a movie — our own movie — were what I had in mind.
My wife and I hadn’t viewed the ceremony in...
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“A ‘no’ uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a...”
– Mahatma Ghandi, as quoted in the article “No” is the New “Yes”: Four Practices to Reprioritize Your Life - Harvard Business Review
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“This was Michelle’s most profound influence on the Obama presidency,” Ms. Kantor...”
– From Partners in Love and the Presidency—A review of The Obamas by Jodi Kantor
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“Over the past decade, academic researchers such as Oatley and Raymond Mar from...”
– From The Business Case for Reading Novels - Anne Kreamer - Harvard Business Review
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“Faith is acting like it is so, even when it’s not so, so that it will be so.”
– Unknown
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Michelle Obama’s Evolution as First Lady -... →
The Michelle Obama of January 2012 is an expert motivator and charmer, a champion of safe causes like helping military families and ending childhood obesity, an increasingly canny political player eager to pour her popularity into her husband’s re-election campaign. But interviews with more than 30 current and former aides, as well as some of the first couple’s closest friends, conducted for...
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“Open thy lattice, Love,
Listen to me,
In the voyage of life,
Love our pilot...”
– Stephen Foster
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Alone Again, Naturally - NYTimes.com →
A woman discovers the answer to the question: Why do many men, after a breakup or a divorce, find it so difficult to be alone, while most women in the same situation seem just fine?
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December 2011
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