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Saturday, November 22, 2014

Tortoise and the hare

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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...
Saturday, November 01, 2014

Close call

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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...
Thursday, October 23, 2014

Awesomeness Factor

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I've been reading up about positive illusions after hearing about it.  It basically means having a really good attitude about somethin...
Friday, October 17, 2014

Giving Tree

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I recently heard about a kids book called 'The Giving Tree'.  This is the Wikipidea entry . Wiki describes the plot --- The bo...
Friday, October 10, 2014

Hurry up and slow down

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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...
Friday, September 19, 2014

One more hour

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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.  ...
Tuesday, September 09, 2014

Meditation class

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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...
Wednesday, July 16, 2014

1435

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Every Ramadan without fail several people say to me some variation of, 'Fasting is so hard.  I could never...aren't you hungry?...
Tuesday, June 03, 2014

Acceptable Costs

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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...
Thursday, May 29, 2014

starless sky

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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...
Tuesday, May 27, 2014

throw up memory

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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...
Saturday, May 17, 2014

What are we going to do today?

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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 ...
Wednesday, May 14, 2014

One percenter

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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...
Sunday, April 20, 2014

Teaching goes both ways

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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...
Wednesday, April 02, 2014

Waiting for the memories

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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 ...
Thursday, March 27, 2014

Random hug

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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...
Tuesday, February 11, 2014

Where is everyone?

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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 ...
Sunday, February 02, 2014

A different world

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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...

The next generation

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I've heard countless stories and recountings of the past from my parents and their generation. Always with some liberties and a little b...
Friday, January 31, 2014

Business books

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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...
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