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Lighthouse
Early morning before anyone was up, Vivi showed me how she learned to draw a lighthouse. Later, Sam and Kav were waiting for me after my run, full of goofball faces. Feeling more than grateful. The night before I read this: Studies have confirmed what’s pretty obvious – having children makes people even unhappier. But…
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The rainbow
This week I saw the biggest, fullest, brightest rainbow I’d ever seen. It was a proper half circle, with none of those slightly weak colored gaps in it that you usually see in rainbows. Full color all the way around. It was at the end of my run that it appeared, and I had to…
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Are you the type of parent who:
Thinks hard about what kind of food is going into your kids body? Tries to include art and music education in your child’s daily education? Takes your kids traveling intentionally to get them away from the comforts they are used to and to see something new? Tries to encourage reading as a fundamental lifelong habit?…
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Running in the rain
As an avid runner, I do lots of running in the rain, wind, sleet and frost. In Scotland this is doubly-so. I run no matter if I’m feeling tired, have a headache or am relaxed and ready. On nicer days I tend to see plenty of people on the trail, and on the more brutal…
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A refreshing change
As part of our recent move to Scotland, I resigned from Microsoft after 13 years of being at the company and I recently started new work as a support engineer (aka Happiness Engineer) with a company called Automattic, a company that’s so different it’s hard to see a resemblance past the fact that they are…
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Scottish water and kilted yoga
Between Scottish water and kilted yoga, the sense of pride the Scots have in their country is wholly foreign to this American.
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Most things remain to be done
In between the constant doing-stuff/busy-ness of moving there have been many glimpses of why we came here and what awaits us when we pause and look around. Isn’t that the point?
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What I learned last week (#28)
Learned last week: A giant of journalism, the beauty of The Alchemist, WeChat the operating system, and more.
