Thanks to my friend and long-time blog reader Carla Golden, I found this beautiful clip of two dancers. According to Carla: She was a teenage dancer in China, having trained from early childhood, when she lost her left arm in a car accident. Depressed, she turned away from dancing for awhile. But when asked to […]
It is easy to take life for granted when things are going well. When they aren’t, you feel anxious, fearful and uncomfortable. In the midst of an incredibly busy two weeks with tons of writing projects and appointments, my 4-month old baby girl Angela got really sick. Hit by a respiratory infection likely transmitted by […]
Hi Everyone! Just a personal note to let you know that we welcomed Angela Rose Slim into the world on Monday night, October 1. She is a happy, peaceful and healthy little girl. As in my previous experience with Josh, after going through the birth process, I have tremendous admiration for every single mother in […]
Here in the U.S., we celebrate July 4 as a national holiday, marking the day that our forefathers signed the Declaration of Independence and officially cut governing ties with colonial powers in England. It is a strong and compelling document that provides a lot of inspiration for a lot of people. Of course I take […]
Photo credit: Sergio Lopez, the nicest and best damn wedding photographer I know. My Dad gives me the best gift any father can give a child each and every day: he absolutely loves his work. He is a photojournalist, and from the time I can remember, he has involved me in the process of taking […]
Photo credit: Sergio Lopez, the nicest and best damn wedding photographer I know. My Dad gives me the best gift any father can give a child each and every day: he absolutely loves his work. He is a photojournalist, and from the time I can remember, he has involved me in the process of taking […]
All of us are very busy. We have consuming jobs, families, businesses to manage and errands to run. If you are in the process of simultaneously working full-time as an employee and building a business on the side, your time pressures are even more extreme. This is no excuse for letting certain things slide. I […]
New Years is my favorite holiday of the year. I get filled with a huge sense of optimism, creativity and imagination. Rather than getting overwhelmed with New Year’s Resolutions, I tend to think about the major ways in which I want to use my life for good. This year, my overwhelming purpose is to use […]
My favorite Garr Reynolds of Presentation Zen just put together an extremely cool list of gifts (mainly books) based on what he has read or used this year. I wanted to buy almost all of them, since even though I am not a designer, I love books about design. One or a couple would make […]
Yesterday I got some heartbreaking news that my dear friend Carlos Aceituno passed away from heart failure. It was completely unexpected and there were no real warning signs besides headache and fatigue. He was in his mid-40s. I met Carlos 20 years ago in San Francisco in my first capoeira class (that is the name […]