For those who've been to Burning Man (the big one) and regionals locally, there is this thing often called "playa magic." While I don't know of any official description, I'd offer it's in…
Life goes up and life goes down. Events go here and events go there. Emotions and experiences and feelings of hope and belief, or despair and desperation, go up and down and here…
There are moments in life when you discover things about yourself.
And others.
Back in the day, I was the theme camp organizer for a lovely group of people at Burning Man (More Carrot, or…
Just finished my third listen of Neil Howe's The Fourth Turning is Here. OMG, OMG, OMG. The sense this man makes.
Here's a bit from the tail end of his book, in which he…
Said it before and I'll say it again:
Expect more strikes and union demands as #Millennials and their team-we-us energy travels with them as they age. (They're 41 at the top end this year, 18…
Don't you just love a good citizen patrol? Especially when one involves urban-dwelling dogs, (the Ratscallions) and their owners as they take their dogs rat hunting in particularly invested areas in NW DC,…
The #GenX generation, by its archetypal nature and location in history, is an under-protected, under-acknowledged and under-appreciated generation. And that's okay. Gen Xers are a survivalist generation more focused on, well, survival, the…
I started hearing about/reading about shrubs a couple-few years ago. These are a pre-canning, pre-refrigeration way of "putting up" excess fruits (and some vegetables) from the farm or garden, mostly by way of…
Shopping earlier today at a local thrift store--as I do here and there--I spotted this bit of ridiculousness. A cheap, thin, no-big-deal shirt originally priced at $5 got priced by someone at 2nd…
JOMO.
Apparently, it's a term, a word, an acronym that has been around for awhile, though it's one I only heard for the first time last night at a party of mostly Burners-not-at-Burning-Man who…
How's this for fabulous?
I met for lunch earlier today Jean Moon , my mentor and client from decades back and someone with whom I hadn't caught up for several…
First, to all of you who wrote on my Facebook timeline or sent me messages on my birthday, thank you! It's wonderful and overwhelming at the same time.
As one who spent…