Cognitive Distortion. "So often, when we're anxious, we believe that thoughts are facts" - a Ten Percent Happier interview "Why does the number keep going up???" - my daughter after she receives a hand-me-down fitness watch from her brother. Her mother's own

I've really enjoyed the somewhat recent explosion in popularity of microbreweries. It's fun to check out a new brewery every few weeks, and many of them have a unique feel and personality, like you might experience at a small coffee shop or book seller. My favorite

I think it's safe to say that, of the many hobgoblins of the typical programmer, the free-form text field is among the worst. I would hate to guess at how much time I've spent and how much code I've written just to deal with

We’re getting underground sprinklers. It was not a decision made lightly or easily, but there it is. Today was step one in that process: installing the back-flow preventer and the piping to get water from the well out to the forthcoming system. The plumber was quite young and had

Scotland is looking to pursue a second independence referendum; France, much like here in the States, is reflecting on times past and their current relative stature in the world; China and Russia are portrayed as ascendant; in Canada and Spain and elsewhere there are persistent rumblings or reformations. And, it

I opened my news app this morning to see that Goldman Sachs wants its people back in the office next month. The story quotes the Goldman CEO, David Solomon, as saying remote work for them is “an aberration that we’re going to correct as quickly as possible.”* I appreciate

Awhile back and for what are probably obvious reasons, I more or less completely gave up browsing news and social media. I would like to say that it was a calculated move made for productivity reasons, or that it was a logical and deliberate "this is not healthy for

Where lies the prestige, print rendered on paper or in pixels? I attended a digital publishing summit last week, and that was one of the core themes that beguiled attendees throughout the course of the day. As a digital editor my reflex is to reach for digital. And while having

...you casually toss out “I don't pretend to follow everything Nietzsche is saying in this book but he seems . . . to be impatient with the dishonesty inherent in most philosophy (emphasis added).” Whoa, what? Is that something you think he believes, or are you tacitly agreeing that that is