Author Archive for admin
Look Away…
…Don’t look yet, I’m not ready! I’ve just gotten this site and there is oh so much to learn. Please turn your browser away and I’ll let you know when it’s okay to look.
While whynotrachel.com is getting presentable please visit whynotrachel.wordpress.com where I will continue to write blog posts until this site is up [...]
Barbara Sher on Scanners
If you’re like me and people think you’re into “everything” and can’t seem to settle on “any one thing” you need to hear this program and feel brilliant for a change!
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Barbara Sher talks about people who are interested in so many things
everyone thinks they’re dilettantes, lightweights & loafers. She thinks
they’re gifted grownups.
I feel [...]
“Just an Inch Past Splat”
In response to the disaboom research:
We are not very good at predicting how we’ll feel about a given situation until we’re in it.
I remember an article in the New Yorker that talked about the near immediate regret Golden Gate Bridge jumpers, the few that actually lived to talk about it, felt as they left their perch.
From the October 13th 2003 New [...]
Disaboom Survey Reveals 52 Percent of Americans Would Rather be Dead Than Disabled
re-print from a July 9th msn money with permission from disaboom
52 percent of Americans would rather die than live with a severe disability, according to a recent national survey commissioned by Disaboom DSBO (www.disaboom.com), the premiere online community for people touched by disability. Disaboom today announced the shocking results in an effort to educate people about [...]
Bear Naked Form
An edited life has become unexeptable for me. What do I mean by an edited life? It’s a life in which I alter what I want to do because of fear. Fear has many faces and manifests itself in as many ways as there are people on this earth.
Don’t be fooled, small, [...]
Twitter?
I remain committed to try everything web so I’m going to be a twit….I mean twitter. I mean I’m going to give twitter a try during our road trip to Chicago. We hit the road around 4:30 (EDT) today.
I guess I should say what twitter is. Near as I can tell, it’s like an itsy-bitsy blog, that you [...]
A Quote
“There are only two ways to live your life. One is though
nothing is a miracle, the other is as though everything is a miracle.”
- Albert Einstein
Here’s another quote from Einstein:
“In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity.”
Homework
Hi all,
Didn’t want you to think I had forgotten about the blog. Barbara has given out a homework assignment that has been taking much of my focus. It’s “due” Thursday night. Given that this homework moves me in the direction of getting my book written, it’s all good.
Barbara Sher is brilliant! The fact that I’m [...]