When is the last time you skipped? Truly skipped? Yes, the popular activity of most six-year-old girls. Today I discovered iskip.com. It is a site dedicated to promoting the positive effects of skipping. The site shares that skipping just a few steps can instantly lift your mood and help you reconnect with your buoyant, exuberant, childlike spirit. Hey, that sounds like something I'm trying to do. Who knew? Skipping! The founder Kim Corbin believes that, "Today's world needs as much positive skipping energy as possible. That is why we are on a mission to share the joy and freedom of skipping with young and old alike." …
Archives for December 2005
Hello, This is Santa
One more take on Kris Kringle. Reveries magazine reports on a new way for the kiddies to chat with Santa. Maybe the thought of sitting on Santa's lap is a tad too terrifying for little Jason...but what if Santa made a phone call? “She didn’t want to have anything to do with the big fat man,” says Cindy Richards, referring to her 3-year-old daughter’s response to a real, live, retail Santa Claus. It was another reaction entirely when Santa rang her up by phone, however. Little Cassidy Richards “froze in giddy shock, the phone locked to her ear … ‘I love you Santa,’ she whispered.” …
The Big Drop
This time of year I’m sure many of you would associate ‘the big drop’ with the ball of lights in Times Square that will make it’s big fall just nine short days from now. A few days before Christmas, ‘the big drop’ I think of is much different. …
Road Trip
Last week I almost died. Or at least was pretty darn close to a hospital visit wearing one of those gowns with built-in air conditioning. Kim, Jenna (the Chief Sales Servant), and I were on our way to Milwaukee for a National Speaker's Association meeting. The conversation was light and lively. Christmas music was on the radio. As we approached a flock of cars, I tapped on the brake to slow down, and made a very alarming discovery. The cruise control would not turn off. …
Really Really Simple
If the whole RSS thing still seems a bit unwieldy, you can now also get new posts from this blog e-mailed to you the old-fashioned way. Just look for the new "Subscribe" section in the sidebar at left. Enter your e-mail address, push the "Subscribe Me!" button and you'll be kept in the loop whenever I've added a fresh post. Brought to you by the folks at FeedBlitz. …
Feed Me
I just wanted to announce that I finally got a chance to get my blog feed listed with Feedburner. So to anyone who subscribes to this blog via RSS, pretty please with a cherry on top update your RSS reader to this: http://feeds.feedburner.com/escapeadulthoodblog For those of you who have NO idea what I just said, here's a quick rundown: …
The Happy Side of Santa
So a few posts back I reported on some of the frightening reactions to Mr. S. Claus. From the Montgomery Advertiser comes a more heartwarming tale of a guy who bought a "ratty" old Santa suit eighteen years ago and wore it to a friends Christmas party. Now he's Montgomery's favorite Santa, with 70 holiday bookings this year. What a cool and unique way to spread the Christmas spirit. He seems like a nice enough guy, but I'm certain I still would have be terrified of him. …
Read What Rich Wrote
Say that three times fast.Thanks to Rich Burridge for the nice review of Escape Adulthood. You never know what you're gonna get when you send out a review copy. For the record, I did NOT offer to make his mortgage payment this month.I offered a kidney. …
Adultitis Survivor
If you've ever seen the Christmas classic, "The Grinch Who Stole Christmas," then you have witnessed first hand how someone who is suffering from a very extreme case of Adultitis can change the way they think and act to be cured from the deadly disease. With the start of the new year Jason and I will be giving you some specific steps on how to make the changes to finally rid yourselves of Adultitis. Look for our new project, The Escape Plan. Mr. Grinch would have been a good case study for our project. …
Narnia Delivers Childlike Wonder & Imagination
This past weekend, Kim and I did our part to contribute to the $65.5M opening of The Chronicles of Narnia. Great, great movie. I must admit, I haven't read the books (although I just bought the entire collection and I'm partway through the prequel to The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe. …
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