Beautiful sunset at the Indigo Girls and Melissa Etheridge show at The Minnesota State Fair last night. Both were great but I’d never seen Melissa before and… Wow!

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by Patrick Rhone, Master Generalist
Beautiful sunset at the Indigo Girls and Melissa Etheridge show at The Minnesota State Fair last night. Both were great but I’d never seen Melissa before and… Wow!

Life hack: Surround yourself with women smarter than you and listen to them.
Guys, it’s really that simple. Listening to women is a superpower.
First Day of Kindergarten. First Day of Senior Year.

My wife writes about our trip to Milwaukee (and college visit to Lake Forest)
Today Beatrix has her last day of back-to-school shopping with her Aunt. Tomorrow will be her last first day of high school.
The next year will be filled with lots of these.
A year of lasts.
The Technium: Everything I Know about Self-Publishing
I’m often asked for advice about how to go about publishing today, with all its options, so here is everything I have learned about publishing and self-publishing so far.
If you’re a writer or aspire to be one, this is important. Worth reading and bookmarking.
Daring Fireball: Woz: ‘I Am the Happiest Person Ever’
Life to me was never about accomplishment, but about Happiness, which is Smiles minus Frowns. I developed these philosophies when I was 18-20 years old and I never sold out.
What we believe in.
Current thought pattern: Almost everything we know about past civilizations we know because of their arts. The architecture, the pottery, the painting, the writing, the mosaics, the jewelry, etc.
Why do the arts matter? Thousands of years from now, it’s the only way we’ll be remembered.
I’ve done a pretty good job of late keeping my Now page up to date.