This is the rental car they gave me for a recent run of speaking gigs in Minnesota. A 2011 Dodge Freaking Charger. It makes me feel like I'm driving the Batmobile. Yes, I know it's white. But I'm talking about the special Batmobile that Batman takes to weddings. …
Photography
Happiness Isn’t Complicated
We search for it in bigger screen TVs, cars with fancier features, and vacations farther from home. Happiness is really nothing more complicated than playing hooky on a beautiful afternoon and sharing some ice cream with someone you love. …
Boringly Normal? Pffft. You Just Might Be Extraordinary.
I recently wrote a post about why normal sucks. In almost every single instance, it really does. …
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How Shamu Helped Me With My Stop Doing List
A few weeks ago I shared my recently written "Stop Doing List", inspired by Danielle LaPorte. Among the 30 things I hope to stop, I was able to tackle one this week head on and it felt REALLY good. It felt so good, in fact, that any Adultitis that was lingering nearby (which is usually inevitable when you're out of your routine) got scared and started running for the hills. …
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Do You Love What You’re Doing As Much As This Duck?
Kim and I took Lucy and two of her cousins to a Madison Mallards baseball game recently. I brought my camera and managed to snap a few photos of Millie, one of the mascots, and she danced down the first base line jazzing up the crowd. It's an ok photo, but did you see it? …
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What Taking Pictures Taught Me About the Power of Play
The photo above is not some Photoshop trick. It's a real shot of me responding to a damsel in distress whom I heard with my super hearing. (Actually it's the result of dozens and dozens of violent leaps onto the bed hoping my camera and his self-timer with continuous shots feature would capture something cool. We almost lost Kim's bedside lamp and days later, my neck and back still hurt, but it was totally worth it.) …
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The Lesson of Lucy’s Doughnut
This is what a doughnut with chocolate frosting and sprinkles looks like when my daughter Lucy is done eating it. I've never seen an adult eat a doughnut like this. Clearly, she doesn't know the proper way to eat a doughnut. Yet. One more thing we're gonna have to teach her, I thought as I snapped this photo. Funny thing, though. …
Gooey Goodness at the Grilled Cheese Grill
As I mentioned in a recent post about our first visit to Portland, one of my favorite parts about the city was the food carts. There are tons of these things, clustered in various locations, featuring cheap and yummy cuisine of all types. (Check out www.foodcartsportland.com for a better feel.) My biggest problem was deciding where to eat. …
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Return from Portland (and World Domination)
"In the face of overwhelming pressure to conform, how do we live a remarkable life in a conventional world?" That was the question at the heart of the first ever World Domination Summit in Portland, Oregon, at which Kim and I were able to attend and present. …
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My Summer Experiment
So I just signed up for a cool-looking online photography course being put on by the awesome Andrea Scher of Superhero Designs. I've never done anything like this before. It's six weeks long and I don't know what to expect and I'm afraid I might have just plunked down seventy-four dollars on something I might not follow though on or get much out of and will I be the only guy (I'm pretty sure I'll be the only guy) and do I even have the time for this anyway? Stupid inner voices. Even though it looked really cool, I almost didn't sign up. …