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I love the way my mind works. Put me in a warm, toasty room and show me a snowstorm outside through the window and my puppy-like mind says ...

I'm pissed again. This is why I don't attend martial arts classes any more, why my answer to "what martial arts have you done?...

Do everything else first. Just kidding. I have an answer to the age-old question of making relationships last. It's really quite simp...

Plenty of down, but day one of the Miller's weekend seminar, loosly dubbed "Violence Dynamics", wasn't all that dirty. Day...

I had another tango article accepted recently for publication in a journal. I got nuthin' but good things to say about being published. ...

I have a confession to make. Well, technically, two. And not so much a confession as a discovery. I collect rocks. I discovered this ...

As a writer and devoted documenter-of-my-code, I found these laugh-out-loud hilarious.  Heck, maybe this even qualifies as a geek test. You ...

To be an upstanding citizen in Washington state means putting up with the most impressive and costly civic crap I've ever seen.  W...

I got to do some very cool things last weekend. I got to sit at an outdoor fire under the stars, I got to listen to people speaking their tr...

Or... How to ask for a raise if you're just a gyrl .  I enjoyed a laugh this morning with this advice from Women's Day on how to ask...

1) I read this article about researcher Donald Redelmeier 2) He uses numbered lists in his email responses 3) He says this is to focus ...

A strange thing happens when you study something for years and years, accepting (repeatedly) that you're just not very good at it and al...

So hot your brain feels like it's melting.  So hot that riding from place A to place B I found myself deciding to go buy things near by ...

Yesterday I consulted with the management of a local non-profit about their online communication channels. It was intended to be a presentat...

I'm coming off a weekend of a lot of tango dancing with friends and strangers and some things have occurred to me.  It's funny ho...