Magnificent Obsessions
Eric Maisel is back with a new book called “Brainstorm” which is about encouraging the mind’s natural talent for obsessing. Maisel differentiates between productive and unproductive obsessing. Basically, the difference…
Category: Pen
Baby Steps
I don’t know about you, but in my childhood, the game “Mother May I?” was all about power and favoritism. There were giant steps and scissor steps… saying “Mother May…
Time and Motion
It’s 5AM and traffic is building on Bush Point Road. The cars come in waves every half hour, most of them heading for the Clinton ferry and long commutes into…
Fall
Temptation to fall toward the dark side of dawn the rain a tease across thirsty beds equipment standing still dollars shifting sorting disappearing in the wind. Fierce conversations waiting in…
Fishing Tales
Every evening now, at dusk, fishermen and women line the shores of Mutiny Bay hoping to catch the big one. They are dressed in shorts, tee shirts and sunglasses and…
Red Sky in the Morning
Rumi’s warning card translates as follows: Look at what you are doing and decide if you are being selfish or brave.” Serpent of transformation hisses at my neck threatening to…
Money Management with a New Twist
I thought I was being Oh So Clever at the beginning of August by paying my credit card payment early. That is, until I got my statement in the mail…
Where Life and Longing Intersect
For the last month or two, I have been going to Casey’s Craft and drooling over a tiny red picture frame. I’m not sure what made me go back again…
Stella Sunday Afternoons 