The October 2016 edition of mindful published highlights from a reader survey about boredom. In general, the piece supports the bias that boredom may not be such a bad thing after all… Maybe not. Then again, I'm pretty certain I've never been bored. Really! One of the questions included was, "What do you think of doodling?" My opinion about doodling (and my somewhat ample/unorthodox definition ...
Midlife Blog
Reuse, Repurpose, Recycle
Did you know that today, July 11th is World Population Day. This is a real day, not a holiday exactly, but a reminder to deep-think the global population bubble. This is a recurring topic over at Why No Kids, and I've already spilled enough digital ink there, so I'll skip the soapbox. At least for now. But it's worth noting that our species is on track to hit 8 billion people by 2025. That's a ...
Bold Creative Risk
Unfettered by prudence, caution, inhibition. Undaunted by convention or expectation. I have a hunch that many adults — midlife, midcareer, mid marriage, mid mortgage, midway to retirement — grow conscious, subtly at first and then slightly less subtly, creative impulses still linger from way back, dormant instincts to forge something out of nothing. No, that's not exactly right. More alchemy. ...
Halfway
Welcome to July, to [almost] Independence Day, to halfway-to-2017, to the second half of 2016. Welcome to a new day and a new month... ripe with potential. Ready... to start fresh once again. Rabbit, rabbit! * It's time to step out of the shadow of yesterday, yester-season, yesteryear. They're all finished and with them, the doubts and setbacks and flops. Compost them. Blunders and absurdities no ...
Bathroom Reading Month
Welcome to the most bibliophilic month of the year. June is National Bathroom Reading Month. I $#%& you not. And I would like to suggest that this thirty day celebration of commodious living is the perfect opportunity to spend some time on the throne with 40x41: Midlife Crisis Postponed. It's the perfect potty companion! Perhaps even more more perfect than Uncle John's Bathroom ...
Publication Time
My weird-wacky-wonderful manuscript is no longer a manuscript. A far-flung and diverse mix of beta testers have generously offered me "barometer reads", and I’ve wrapped up revisions. A deft designer has alchemized the bits and pieces into a tidy book. And shortly the whole adventure will be pressed into paper. It's publication time. At last it's time to send this wayward child out into the ...