Emails on purpose

Correspondence with an old friend, triggered by a post i came across on Tony Tjan’s Harvard Business blog: Dear R– When i read this i thought of you and me. It’s off some website for venture capitalists, of all things, but the five questions made a lot of sense to me: These five questions, when [...]

Movement—but to where?

I’m off tomorrow (Tuesday) to Tofino for 4 days. Then it’s a house/cat/dogsit in Ucluelet for a week. Then it’s … well, i really don’t know. There’s a standing offer to be “houseboy” for an executive-type gal in Victoria, though neither of us seems to have any idea what that means. But there are also [...]

Life in the hands of Google

I am woefully bad at making life decisions. I can waffle for months while opportunities come and go without latching onto any one of them. Trouble is, i don’t see a decision as saying “yes” to something; i see it as saying “no” to the thousand-and-one alternatives. And i hate the narrowing of possibility. As [...]

Self-definition

I’m wallowing in a funk of self-definition these days, or rather, a funky lack of self-definition. The principal building block of the self, in my culture, is what you fill in the blank with in the sentence “I am a _____.” And i have little these days, and seemingly less day by day, with which [...]

Shopping for Godot

Consumer paralysis afflicts me more and more these days. This afternoon i walked miles, from outdoor store to outdoor store along Broadway, seeking the perfect daypack to replace the perfectly good daypack i was carrying from store to store. The one i’ve got, you see, is just one big bag with shoulder straps attached. No [...]

MERCH LUST

I dropped in to Tom Lee Music on Granville St. today. They’ve filled out their hand percussion section since i was there last, and i found and tapped on Mountain Rhythm‘s well made frame drums. a cadillac version of the Remo cheapie i’ve been spending hours a day on for months now. Unfortunately, frame drums, [...]