Just when I was thinking things were starting to get calmer around the office, my new-by-only-4-weeks office manager gave me notice this past Wednesday. She realized that, although she had asked me for the job, that she hadn’t really known how… detailed? brain-intensive? complicated? it was, and she realized that she didn’t have enough brain [...]

When my sister and I were kids, I remember sitting at the dinner table watching my parents quiz her on geography. I don’t know why I escaped this (I can only assume that, at the age of 7 or 8, she must have demonstrated some grossly obvious lack of knowledge) so my parents took it [...]

I was at my gym a couple of days ago, and as gyms go, it’s pretty nice. Considering I fork out $60 a month for it, it should be pretty nice. It’s got great equipment, location is awesome, I have my own locker there so I don’t have to drag stuff around, and they give [...]

This past weekend we were in Albuquerque, speaking at a national conference for acupuncturists. You might remember my post (aptly titled, “They Want WHAT? WHEN?”) about nearly throttling Will when we applied for this opportunity back in August — now we were finally here and (hopefully) ready to produce the goods. If you’ve read my [...]

I finally succumbed and bought a pair of these. After I made fun of Will (who also has a pair) for about 3 weeks, of course, and also banned them from the office, since they make you look like a complete DORK. Actually, this photo makes me a little dizzy — I could have probably [...]

I don’t know about you, but I LOATHE hearing recordings of myself, most pictures of myself (thank God for Photoshop) and, most of all, videos of myself. We’re always our own worst critic, aren’t we? Our voices don’t sound like they do in our heads, we think we should have said it differently, or God [...]