I’m at a point where I’m about ready to surrender to the circumstances that be and leave my growing menagerie of houseplants to their fate (which is to say, to an aggressive white mold, swarming fungus gnats, and possibly some type of mite). If it were up to me, I might just scrap it, toss [...]
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Epic Garden Fail
Posted in Environment, Family, Finances, Health, Self-Examination on August 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
What If We’re Wrong
Posted in Environment, Family, Fulfillment, Health on July 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I’d say I fall squarely in the Global-Climate-Change-is-real-and-we-need-to-do-something-about-it camp. I’m probably more of a pragmatic environmentalist, but I worry over wasting water, drive a tiny, gas-sipping Aveo, and want to make my garden bigger every year. I support renewable power, conservation, etc. I’m also smart enough to realize I could be wrong.
The climate change we’re [...]
On Trusting Children
Posted in Adventure, Family, Health, Learning, Responsibility, tagged Adventure, Family, Health, Learning, Responsibility on April 14, 2008 | 3 Comments »
It seems to be that all the most mature people I know have something in common: their parents treated them like adults even as children. (Exact details vary, and the changes show in the person, but this general theme holds.) This sort of trust is hard, no doubt. The world can be a dangerous place, [...]
Doing Right By People
Posted in Family, Friends, Morality, Relationships, tagged Family, Friends, Morality, Relationships on April 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I have this hopeful, nostalgic idea that, sometime before now, people were moved by common decency to treat others well. I believe – or really, really want to – that at some point before our litigious, pre-nup signing, anti-social, isolated society, people had manners and showed hospitality. If nothing else, I choose to believe that [...]
On Hereditary Disease
Posted in Family, Health, tagged Family, Health on March 27, 2008 | 3 Comments »
(It feels like it’s been too long at Step Lightly without me posting something that got my friends and family sending me worried e-mails. Thats a shame, because that’s half the fun of blogging. So here goes.)
My mom has been diagnosed with depression. She’s been fighting with it for years and has done incredibly well [...]
Blog: The No Impact Man
Posted in Environment, Family, Finances, Fulfillment, Link, Relationships, tagged Environment, Family, Finances, Fulfillment, Link, Relationships on March 13, 2008 | 1 Comment »
For a while now one of my favorite blogs has been No Impact Man, the ongoing writings of a liberal environmentalist who got sick of waiting for the world to change and decided to change himself. He set out over a year to drop his net environmental impact to zero (very little negative impact plus [...]
On Radical Honesty
Posted in Family, Friends, Honesty, Morality, Relationships, Self-Examination, tagged Family, Friends, Honesty, Morality, Relationships, Self-Examination on March 12, 2008 | 1 Comment »
In The Year of Living Biblically, A.J. Jacobs mentioned a book called Radical Honesty, which, it turns out, is part of a larger site and organization. In the book, he quoted them on the thrill of being completely honest (worthy of an amusement park ride). I don’t have first hand experience with the level of [...]
Childhood Dreams
Posted in Family, Friends, Fulfillment, Learning, Link, Purpose, Thankfulness, tagged Family, Friends, Fulfillment, Learning, Link, Purpose, Thankfulness on February 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Monday morning, and I think most of us could use a little inspiration to get us going.
Randy Pausch is an amazing person. If he had given this lecture just as a normal Last Lecture Series lecture, it would be impressive. Instead, this is the whole story:
Carnegie Mellon Professor Randy Pausch, who is dying from pancreatic [...]
What It Takes To Be Happy: Love, Family, and Friends
Posted in Family, Friends, Love, tagged Family, Friends, Love on February 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
In honor of Valentines Day (a day notorious for making people either very happy or very unhappy), we continue the What It Takes To Be Happy series this week with a look at love, family, and friends. Enjoy, and I hope Valentines Day makes you happy. If not, just remember: it will be over tomorrow.
I’d [...]
