For all of my harping last week about the evils of teevee (or tell-lie-vision, as xtina says), one thing I did not focus on is my own role injecting the poison into my brain. Certainly teevee is chock full of junk, but it also can occupy a non-destructive place in the hands of a [...]

I had a brief, but most wonderful, conversation with my sister this morning, wherein I learned a little bit about the mischievous side of my wonderful nephew. On our call, my sister mentions to me that it must be harder for me to give up ms. teevee, being single and all. I know what she [...]

Aside from my recent spate of posts here at the Mutant mother ship, I have, in the past two days, also embarked on a fresh effort to do some blogging related to my professional pursuits. I have been inspired, encouraged and enabled by some of my esteemed colleagues, my love of blogs in general, my [...]

Clearly, I am on a roll. Aside from dispatching my television, caffeine addiction, and material possessions, I also recently embarked on a desktop purge.
The cleansing of my desktop was spurred by a GTD-related blog post (from Zen Habits), which emphasized the importance of clearing your workspace of clutter. It championed the virtue of removing the [...]

Whether due to circumstance or nature, I cannot say for sure, but I am a big believer in ‘traveling light’. I feel better when I shed the extra baggage that I - like you - pick up along the path of life. Material possessions, habits, toxins, emotions - all can become weights that hold us [...]

I think it was about, I don’t know, four or five months ago that I did an herbal digestive cleanse. I used to do these cleanses regularly, many years ago, as far back as my college days (!). Prior to this latest cleanse, it had been probably a couple of years.
One of the reasons I [...]