I've got everything in the world - except money. My body is in excellent health, due to a lifetime of Yoga, juggling, and the odd bit of Parkour. My children are strong and curious. They are beautiful creatures, that I have the honor and privilege of shepherding into this world. My wife is a beauty. [...]
One of the most powerful, overlooked methods of blog promotion is making blogger friends. Blogs that have overlapping audiences with your own are read by people who would probably read your blog. They are also written by people who would read your blog. People who would promote your blog. If you were friendly. How do [...]
It's been nearly two years since we've started living in Costa Rica. Phase 1: Complete! Phase 2 is to live in Portland half the year (the good half) and come back to Costa Rica for another half of the year (the other good half). Portland has a long, wet winter. This may be why the residents of [...]
EDIT: This was a prank for April Fool's Day. To everyone I have decieved, I'm sorry. After talking it over with my family, we've decided to stop living a lie. Actually, we have to, because Johanna is taking our kids downtown to panhandle three days a week, and we've started seeing people we know. [...]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tecBKhzkBs Video by Caelan Huntress: Music by akshara weave Part of my morning meditation practice is to focus on each one of my chakras. By visualizing the colors and chanting the sounds associated with each of these energy centers, we can cleanse and strengthen the spirit that inhabits our mortal shell. The excellent 10-minute chakra [...]
I've got a special place in my heart for gypsies, Burners, and new age hippies. They love like no one else can. They dance from the spasms of the spirit. They are the artists that can push the boundaries of what the human culture creates. And they came to my country, 45 minutes from my [...]
"We Become What We Think About." - Earl Nightingale Maybe you've noticed this, too: people who keep having problems over and over again, they really like to talk about them. Those who live life of ease - they don't. Gossip and complaining is not how they comment on the world. There is a very real correlation [...]
I looked around, surprised at the sudden silence: I had a moment to write. It was a Saturday. The kids were getting into the car with my wife, and I had an hour to myself, alone with my laptop. A few years ago, I would have spent the first ten minutes preparing to write. Instead, [...]
I post on a lot of different blogs every month. If you want to see where else I'm writing, here is a sample from January. The Ace of Sales blog Top 4 Time Savers for Social Media - I review my favorite 4 time-saving tools in social media. (I manage more than 50 social [...]
On a high quality self-marketing blog that I manage, when someone would add a comment that included an apostrophe, the apostrophe would populate on the page with a backslash behind it. From ' to /' every time. I could manually edit these in the Wordpress backend, or even use a search and replace plugin on [...]