North Face Has Shown Us The Way

North Face Has Shown Us The Way

Walking through a park the other day I noticed a man strolling in front of me wearing a North Face jacket. I knew it was North Face because the company positions their logos on the backs of their jackets, directly over the wearer’s right shoulder blade. How strange....
The Power of Patterns

The Power of Patterns

Sometimes a thing looks like both the component parts that make up the thing and a collection of the thing itself. A rock, for example, looks both like a grain of sand and a mountain. Chunks of ice, too, look both like ice crystals and icebergs. Human nature can often...
Why I Never Check Luggage

Why I Never Check Luggage

There are a lot of reasons why I don’t ever check my bags when I get on a flight: First, I believe that there are only two kinds of luggage; carry-on and lost. Case in point, Gloria and I attended an over-the-top 50th birthday party in Austria that included a...
A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words

A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words

Whenever I park my bicycle, I’m careful to lock it securely to a bike rack or lamp post. I use a Kryptonite shackle lock and always make sure I run it through my bike frame and around secure anchors. I do all this with the hope that my bike will be right where I left...
People Don’t Know What They Want

People Don’t Know What They Want

A lot of people don’t know what they want, what their goals and aspirations are or what they are capable of. Because people don’t have a good understanding of who they are and what they want, offering them bromides about “being all they can be,” or “grabbing life by...
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