I know it's been a bit since I've sent an email. Some of you may have even missed them! I'm going to depart from the usual format today because I found out - because I asked - that a lot of you don't know that I actually do acupuncture...here...with needles. Well...I...

“Life is fair. We all get the same nine-month shake in the box, and then the dice roll. Some people get a run of sevens. Some people, unfortunately, get snake-eyes. Its just how the world is.” - Stephen King I was angry for a week. Kind of a diffuse, all over general...

cheer CHir/ verb gerund or present participle: cheering 1. shout for joy or in praise or encouragement. "she cheered from the sidelines" synonyms: encourage, urge on, spur on, drive on, motivate, inspire, fire (up), inspirit, light a fire under "my friends were there...

"The secret of getting ahead is getting started." Mark Twain Admiral William McRaven, a Navy SEAL who commanded the mission that took care of Osama bin Laden knows a few things about getting started. It's Monday, and we all fight our own demons when it comes to...

"The thing that people, I think, don’t appreciate right now is that they are already a cyborg."Elon Musk   Elon Musk makes me feel lazy. He's the guy behind Tesla, the electric car company; SpaceX, the manned rocket to Mars company, and PayPal . (Among probably a...

 When you first rise in the morning tell yourself: I will encounter busybodies, ingrates, egomaniacs, liars, envy-mongers, and cranks." —Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, 2.1 Sounds like Monday morning was as rough two thousand years ago as it is today. Marcus...

My son has a pair of nasty blue shorts he calls his "energy shorts." I don't know how this started, but (he claims) when he puts them on it gives him Great Energy that requires him to run around and ping off the walls like an idiot... which he is... because he's 11. I...

I really did say that to Mary. The thing about having a rotten weekend. OK. Here's the deal. I don't want any of you to have a bad weekend. It's just that we are going to Arizona to visit my folks for a few days and I want the weather to be beautiful there. Now the...

pro·cras·ti·na·tion prəˌkrastəˈnāSH(ə)n/ noun noun: procrastination; plural noun: procrastinations 1. the action of delaying or postponing something. "your first tip is to avoid procrastination" But this is the real definition:" If something is hard to do, then what's...

"I tell you, nothing concentrates your mind like knowing how many days you have left." Kevin Kelly I'm 54 and I am dying. According to a mortality calculator, I will die on Tuesday, September 16th, 2042. I guess I'll miss the World Series that year. I don't know for...