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Long a$$ rambling tax ‘tip’
Hi Friends, DISCLAIMER: This is not financial advice. I am not a tax expert, and the post below is not to be considered professional advice. It is a…
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Why try bird’s eye?
On the art & science of mapping, and our physical positioning in relationship to the places we depict. Maps may have come about, in part, to verify that…
Coaching
Living Legacy™ and loving turns of phrase
I love turns of phrase, especially those that are, by their nature, contradictory. Living Legacy is one like this. Legacy, by definition, has to do with what you…
Language
Audience
A term of endearment post. If you can feel positioning and motion inherent in words, then you may also experience how your point of view can flip with…
Language
Perspicacious: a term of endearment
I heard this word for perhaps the first time in a podcast, and fell in love. The word delighted me because it condensed into one word what I’d…
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Ai Ai (for now)
[Update 12/21/20255] I’ve stopped using AI as an administrative tool, because, it is has been more trouble than it has provided innovative solutions, AND it uses ridiculous amount…
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Life is a feeling
One of my teachers said the title of this post with great authority, and it gave me pause. How could life be a feeling, I wondered, isn’t life…
Language
What do you call utopia?
With Sunday Morning Hope by David Byrne and Patti Smith I don’t care for the word utopia. I feel it’s been so overused for so long that my…
Culture
Regress, or Congress?
In 2016, I wrote letters to a number of GOP Senators asking them to hold the line against the destructive tendencies of Trump. It seemed clear that his…
Creativity
One-Third School, Two-Thirds Sky
I’ve had so many things on my mind lately, and much of it related to the sky: blues, clouds, galaxies, light and dark matter, and accelerating expanses. And…
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In (and out of) Service
[Originally published as newsletter on 11/11/2025] My Dad is a Veteran. He served our country in a regimented way to protect democracy. Practically, he was doing tasks inside…
Mommess
What I know about marketing
Good marketing is not a getting activity. It’s a giving one. To do marketing well, you must give first. And give often to new people. And I don’t…