Stop SOPA and PIPA

by Nancy

Today is a worldwide day of protest.  Today, people who care about being able to use the Internet as a space where everyone can connect and share ideas, information and commerce, are protesting the proposed bills in Congress whose acronyms are, respectively, SOPA and PIPA (a nasty pair if ever there was one.).   Here is [...]

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Today is Martin Luther King, Jr. Day in the USA ~ and I say that’s a good thing. Our country pauses today to remember a man whose tireless work to create more justice, fairness, and the realization of human potential inspired multiple generations:  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.  This was a man with flaws, to [...]

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Completion: Things from 2011

by Nancy

Completions.  What didn’t get done last year. On the theme of Beginnings. . . which is on a lot of minds these days, as we launch (or lurch, as the case may be. . . ) into 2012, I am thinking about completions, and why having things not finished keeps you from starting new ones [...]

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New beginnings.  Is there any other kind?  Let me think. . . old beginnings? Well, there are certainly things I’ve started and then needed to start over.  Those might be in a category called “Begin Again” or “Startovers”.  Not “do-overs” because for some of them, nothing much actually got done!  Just started over because I [...]

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My Three Words for 2012

by Nancy

For this, I need to thank Chris Brogan — one of my real life heroes — who started the meme a few years back.  I loved it then, because it made so much sense.  I still love it, because it’s really helped me focus all year long on the energy I want to bring into [...]

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This year, I wanted the feeling of “fresh”.  That was the word that popped into my head when I thought about how I wanted to feel, as I began a new year. So. . . when I looked around the office, I automatically knew one thing I would need to change:  there were piles of [...]

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Beginnings Also Mean Endings

by Nancy

While many people focus right now on new beginnings — and the energy of starting over or starting something new is strong in all our minds — I also notice that as one year ends and another begins, that marks an ending too. I don’t have statistics on how many people begin a new year [...]

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2012: The Healing Institute?

by Nancy

The first post of 2012 isn’t the one I’d planned — but it was something I simply have to write.  The Blog Challenge theme for this month is Beginnings — so, in a way, this is also about that.  But more to the point I want to make today, perhaps the theme of 2012 is [...]

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For want of a tool — Part Two

by Nancy

In the last post, you learned about our car saga over Thanksgiving (and continuing. . . sigh.)  Turns out that one of the key problems was in not having the right ool for the job.  And in this case, that may NOT be the final key; there could be something further wrong, yet to be [...]

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William Shakespeare wrote (and I could be paraphrasing here, it’s been a lonnnnnnng time since college English class) “For want of a horse, a kingdom was lost.”  He was talking about one of the many kings featured in his poetry or plays ~ but that phrase has become a metaphor for how close you can [...]

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