Putting it out there
Earlier this month when I went to hear Chris Edgar talk about his book, Inner Productivity, he said something that struck home for me… uncomfortably. He was talking about procrastination, and he said it is often on our most important projects – the ones with the most pressing deadlines, and sometimes even the ones about […]
Read MoreI’ve always been terrible at that.
I am fascinated by koans. For this post, I looked up the actual definition. From Dictionary.com: A koan is a puzzling, often paradoxical statement or story, used in Zen Buddhism as an aid to meditation and a means of gaining spiritual awakening. Recently, not for the first time, this koan caught my attention: What did […]
Read MoreHelping… what’s her name.
Time for me to ask you for advice. But first, let me just say that you were all amazing last week when I asked for movie suggestions. I have 49 new movies in the queue! You guys rocked my Blockbuster world! Let’s see if you can do it again. Now that I’ve decided not to […]
Read MoreAffectionately Yours
So, lately, I’ve been thinking a lot about closing salutations. Wait, don’t go! This post will be intelligent, sexy, enlightening and maybe even profound (because the coffee I’m drinking is exceptional). It used to be easy. A few years ago, in email (where our correspondence covers the spectrum from professional acquaintance to lover), there were […]
Read MoreSaturday Silliness
Guess what I found last week when I was clearing out my workspace? My desk! Just as I’d suspected, it was there, under the papers and books and magazines and tiny woodland creatures. And something else was there: my totally awesome Curious Lists book! Woo-hoo! If you’ll recall, the book doesn’t actually supply me with lists, just […]
Read MoreIt’s J-day!
It’s my birthday, and I’m feeling celebratory. The past year has been a roller coaster for me – one of the hardest and one of the best ones ever. I’ve never been less sure of myself… or more willing to go for it anyway. I’ve never felt more nervous… or more daring; more lost… or […]
Read MoreCalifornia Dreaming
Despite my posts that would seem to indicate otherwise, it’s been a while since I got in here without any notion of what I’d write. I’ve written a lot today, nano and otherwise, and it feels like maybe I don’t have anything left for thetechntalk.com. And yet… I’ve been toying with a question-of-the-day post. Let’s […]
Read MoreYeah, I do that.
If you would have told me a year ago that I’d be making time every morning to do yoga, I’d have believed you because, actually, I’m sort of gullible. But still. It would have seemed far-fetched. I’ve never thought of yoga as a workout. Workouts are supposed to raise my heart rate, build muscles, make […]
Read MoreThis post is round.
I’m feeling a little… ravished today. I think that’s the word I want. Let me go check… Hahaha. Nope. Definiely not the word I want. I should delete that opening line and start over, but this is apparently a post about how my mind works. Let me try again. What I meant to say is… […]
Read MoreDispositioning J
(Grammar note. Disposition is, technically speaking, according to every reliable source I checked, a noun. Only a noun. I’m using it as a verb. That is all.) On Tuesday, frustrated because I couldn’t find an article I knew I’d saved, I spent the morning (and, to be honest, a large part of the afternoon as […]
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