Gut Check

Gut Check

I’ve been on a diet this summer, the first of my life, really, and it’s more about healthful eating and exercise than it is about weight loss. It started with me giving up Coke. And, since we’re talking about it, I’ll tell you the good news...
Join With Others

Join With Others

The best kind of friend, the one you start laughing with for no reason, and keep laughing with, doubled over, tears in your eyes. Laurie was that kind of friend, though we didn’t know each other long. I moved to Ohio and started in a new high school during my...
A Healthy Relationship With Technology

A Healthy Relationship With Technology

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. -Arthur C. Clarke It started to become a real problem when I was eleven or twelve. I would stay up late thinking, writing in my journal, listening to the sounds our old, creaky house made when the...
Get Buffer

Get Buffer

Consistency in using social media channels is important. But life is not predictable, even when we would like it to be. For my part, I live an exceedingly predictable life. I get up early; I work; I spend time with my daughters for breakfast and exercise; I work...
Experience #TWIRL

Experience #TWIRL

Have you ever met someone face to face who you initially met through Twitter? That’s #TWIRL — Twitter in Real Life — a phrase coined by Whitney Johnson, the author of Dare, Dream, Do, a client of my company, a mentor to me, a friend. Whitney landed on the phrase...
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Ask

Each morning, I begin my time on Twitter by asking a question. It’s typically the same question, and I’ve certainly written about it in this space before: “Who’s awake?” I don’t ask because it’s a particularly important or...