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What I learned this week, August 11, 2021
Golden Boy, in AT&T Plaza, Dallas, Texas Is Life Better When You’re Busy? Why is everybody so busy? Nearly a century ago, the economist John Maynard Keynes predicted we’d only work fifteen hours a...
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What I learned this week, August 18, 2021
Carnival Valor, Caribbean Sea Sit all day for work? A simple step can cut your health risk Take a work break: A small, new study suggests that getting out of your chair every half hour may help...
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What I learned this week, September 1, 2021
TikTok doctor explains why sneakers filled with human feet keep washing up on beaches in the Pacific Northwest OK… is this the most clickbait headline ever? The crazy thing is, once you think about it...
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The Honey Process
“It is inhumane, in my opinion, to force people who have a genuine medical need for coffee to wait in line behind people who apparently view it as some kind of recreational activity.”― Dave Barry My...
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What I learned this week, September 7, 2021
There’s lots you can cook up with the crawfish. Corn, crabs – or here, sausage, garlic heads, and taters. It all takes the spice and the flavor of the crawfish. The Last Days of the Blue-Blood Harvest...
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What I learned this week, September 24, 2021
Bicycles stacked up in front of Hot & Cool How to make new friends as an adult If you’re not used to having a lot of friends any more, you may actually need to remind yourself to engage. Set time...
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What I learned this week, October 8, 2021
Here’s some origami I did. I’m working on a story and I decided to origami my draft. The design is called, “This is a bunch of crap.” Our Brains Tell Stories So We Can Live Without inner narratives we...
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More things I learned this week, October 9, 2021
Timber, by Gene Koss, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana (click to enlarge) Why it’s not surprising that young men are abandoning college The recent surge in stories about young men abandoning...
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What I learned this week, October 15, 2021
Artwork in the Braindead Brewing Company, Deep Ellum, Dallas, Texas ‘The great reimagination of work’: Why 50% of workers want to make a career change The coronavirus pandemic has forced Americans to...
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More things I learned this week, October 25, 2021
Downtown Square, McKinney, Texas Is Social Media Hijacking Our Minds? What the invention of the hypodermic needle was to morphine addiction, the invention of the smart phone was to behavioral...
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What I learned this week, October 29, 2021
Cedars Open Studios 1805 Clarence Street Dallas, Texas The 5 Basic Laws of Human Stupidity This is fascinating – to the point I picked up the book. Will write more about this later. One of the cool...
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More Things I learned this week, November 1, 2021
Something In front of Braindead Brewing Deep Ellum Dallas, Texas The Empty Brain Your brain does not process information, retrieve knowledge or store memories. In short: your brain is not a computer...
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What I learned this week, November 5, 2021
Woman writing in a Moleskine Notebook, Wichita, Kansas Want to Retain Information Better? Try This Popular, 70-Year-Old Note-Taking Method Anyone who has ever attended a keynote, lecture, or...
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What I learned this week, November 12, 2021
Riace Warriors, I,II,III,IV, Elisabeth Frink, he Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden 3 Things No One Ever Told You About Making Friends in Adulthood There are lots of bits of advice you...
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More Things I learned this week, November 17, 2021
Writing in my Moleskine Journal outside the Mojo Lounge, Decatur Street, French Quarter, New Orleans The Life-Changing Magic Of Bullet Journaling I’m a skeptic about many things, and this definitely...
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What I learned this week, November 26, 2021
A group of friends in front of the Dallas Museum of Art, night, long exposure How To Navigate Friendship As An Adult I’ve been thinking about friendship a lot lately—forming new ones, strengthening...
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More Things I learned this week, December 8, 2021
We Stand Together, George Rodrigue, The Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden Feel lonely? There are 4 types of loneliness. Here’s how to beat them Have you ever gotten into bed at the end of the...
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Sunday Snippet, It’s You by Bill Chance
That man’s silence is wonderful to listen to.—-Thomas Hardy My Toshiba Netbook – rode my bike to a coffee shop. It’s You I was behind in my work – the magazine needed some short fiction from me – so...
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What I learned this week, December 31, 2021
Get the Hell Out of Here 2021 and Oh, Shit, Here Comes 2022 For Our Own Good, We All Need a Glimpse of the Evil Queen Now, as far as I am concerned, dreams are statements from nature. It is not so...
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What I learned this week, January 14, 2022
My android tablet and portable keyboard, I stopped my bike ride on the Bridge Park over the Trinity River to get some writing done. Learning, Practice, and Repetition: Why the Act of Writing Is Work...
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