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I've heard this story many many times over the years. It's pretty simple and I've absorbed the message a little bit more every t...

I had a very close call this morning. A possibly life ending moment. It's a couple hours later and my heart is still racing.  The detail...

I've been reading up about positive illusions after hearing about it.  It basically means having a really good attitude about somethin...

I recently heard about a kids book called 'The Giving Tree'.  This is the Wikipidea entry . Wiki describes the plot --- The bo...

Today I had an especially busy morning and I let myself get caught up in the busyness.  I rushed from here to there and back many times bot...

The other day Yusuf asked me why there aren't 25 hours in a day.  I explained some stuff about the sun rising and the earth spinning.  ...

Work offers a meditation class.  It's more of a close-your-eyes-and-relax class.  I was going for a few months and then I took the summ...

Every Ramadan without fail several people say to me some variation of, 'Fasting is so hard.  I could never...aren't you hungry?...

I've trained myself to think in economic terms about many things.  At work, I almost reflexively think about things in terms of their u...

I heard a physicist talk about the universe expanding.  It was a pretty cool and a little bit geeky, but still accessible to me.  It was fa...

This was one of the first things I wrote ten years ago.  This memory is still vivid.  I still remember how I felt when I wrote this.  I had...

Zahra has been gone this week and it's been me and the kids for six days so far. I'm a little exhausted, but in the most fulfilling ...

I am looking around at my house which is mostly packed up at this point. We are almost all ready to move in a couple weeks. I'm taking a...

Over pancakes this morning Yusuf suggested putting whip cream all over the floor and then going sledding.  And I didn't answer, but he a...

I just finished driving up route 1 with the family and it was BEAUTIFUL.  Every few minutes there seemed to be a vista to stop and take in ...

I picked up a random book from the bookshelf.  After reading a few pages that seemed oddly familiar I realized that I had read this back in...

At work and in my statistics education I am asked a lot to think about what will happen.  This is mostly math-y and a lot of scribbling on ...

The last few days in Mumbai have been eye opening in many ways.   There are soooo many people. It's amazing!  They all go about their bu...

I've heard countless stories and recountings of the past from my parents and their generation. Always with some liberties and a little b...

I have a growing section of "business" books in the library. The books are full of what seem to me to be a couple simple ideas sai...