I just finished reading the chapter in Outliers explaining the ethnic theory of airplane crashes and realized how similar flying an aircraft is to ending a relationship. Both are just one giant crash landing – some just have better results than others.
From the statistics author Malcolm Gladwell includes, I learned that most fatal accidents [...]
Archive for March, 2009
love and one giant plane crash
Posted in love, tagged love, miscommunicating, Outliers, relationships on March 30, 2009 | 6 Comments »
what you can’t see
Posted in all, tagged life skills, Mike May, trusting your instincts on March 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Today I stumbled across the online journal of Mike May, the world record holder for downhill speed skiing for a blind person and a truly fascinating human being. Though the last entry posted was from 2003, I was so captivated by the insights, humor, and affection pervasive in May’s writing that I wound up reading [...]
my nana
Posted in my people, tagged family, grandmothers, my people on March 23, 2009 | 3 Comments »
My nana has spunk. Verve. Sass. She has a mind of her own, a Mac laptop and a gmail account. She is savvy. She is smart. And she isn’t afraid to throw down when it counts. Like … when her grandchildren try to treat her to breakfast. Or dinner. Or insist she park in legal [...]
more lessons i learned from the old people in my life
Posted in my people, tagged family, grandmothers, growing a pair, the Waves, world war II on March 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I need to grow a pair. Yeah, you read that right.
It took flying more than 4,000 miles to visit my grandparents in Boston and Florida for me to learn that I have to stop being so … straight edge. Not only is it stressful to try and maintain decorum and obey the rules all the [...]
the questions you would ask
Posted in my people, tagged family, grandparents, life on March 15, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Over the years I have probably interviewed hundreds, if not thousands of people while working as a newspaper reporter. I have had the privilege to interview Marines injured while serving in Iraq, family members of 9/11 victims, and Nobel Prize winning scientists.
Over the years I have donned boots and hiked through the woods in search [...]
feeling it
Posted in all, tagged economy, life changes, unemployment rate on March 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
As usual, I was running late this morning and missed both buses I can take to the Caltrain. With no back up plan and laden with a grocery bag filled with whiskey for the new wet bar in my office, I did what anyone in the dark carrying a bag of booze would do at [...]
getting away from it all. sort of – part ii
Posted in my people, travel, tagged best friends, getting away from it all, iphones, Mendocino, roadtripping on March 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
So it turns out Emily and I drove 310 miles round trip for lunch and a nap on the beach. And it was totally worth it. To be honest, we didn’t end up leaving at 6:30 like I planned (demanded), the only exercise I got was pushing the gas pedal, and we didn’t exactly not use [...]
getting away from it all. kind of – part i
Posted in my people, travel, tagged best friends, getting away from it all, Mendocino on March 10, 2009 | 1 Comment »
When I was little I used to run away on a regular basis. This usually occurred after a disagreement with my mother that involved me being told I was wrong about something.
Because I have never taken being wrong particularly well, I wound up stomping upstairs to my room, hollering about finding a new home, and [...]
keeping it in the family
Posted in all, my people, tagged evil cell phones, family, iphones, samsung glyde, verizon on March 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I am pretty sure the people at Verizon and Samsung have teamed up to kill me and my family using a combination of crappy cell phone technology and psychological warfare. Their plan: exploit our passionate (explosive?) natures and slowly drive us mad by equipping us with inferior touchscreens and planting outrageous sales people in our presence.
You see, it [...]
