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Tuesday, January 31, 2012

January in Review: A Resolutions Update

I promised a report at the end of each month as to how I am doing keeping up with my 2012 goals/resolutions and I intend to follow through with that so here I am, with Januarys' update. You don't care. You don't even remember. (Because, REALLY, who would?!) But your word is your word is your word. So here I am.

My 2012 goals are many, some are for the year but others are monthly and/or weekly~ among them, exercise 3 times a week, drink at least 60 oz. of water each day, read (specifically, in or about scripture) daily. These goals were really for the weekdays-not the weekends. Weekends are special in my book. Besides, ain't no way, no HOW I will be exercising in front of Matt.

Also~ each month I wanted to write at least one letter on the Sabbath and at least two letters, specifically, to my grandfather who is alone and would appreciate more than anyone, letters in the mail. I also wanted to tackle one house project per month and one homemade Christmas gift per month.

Here is a look at how I measured up in January:
(in red are the areas where I did not meet my goals)

(May I just say that public accountability is excruciating...but it is the excruciation that makes follow through terribly convincing to oneself.)

Exercise (3x per week): 17 times (totally exceeded my goal. YAY! And my waist measures 2 inches smaller too-though it doesn't feel it to me.)

Read (daily): every day. Scripture and/or Devotional

Drank 60 oz. of water: 23 times. I have now officially evolved backwards...into a fish. ;-)

Letter-writing: 17 letters (that includes thank-you notes from Christmas though so it isn't nearly as impressive as it sounds....)

Letters to Opa: 2

Financial Funds: Zilch

Did not have any money to set aside for savings or money to earmark for a car fund this month. I realized last year that by spreading payments (like auto insurance) out as a monthly payment not ONLY was I paying more in interest, but they were hitting me with a $5.00 INSTALLMENT fee-EACH month. Not cool. So I paid several bills for the whole year off once and for all, thus leaving nothing extra to be put away. It was worth it.

Homemade Christmas Gift Made: Homemade Vanilla Extract

It takes a few months (actually SIX, so if this is on your Christmas Gift List than be thinking about making a batch in the next few months! Don't know how? Here you go.)

House Project of the Month: Painted living room window, door and baseboard trim from brown to cream!

I started this project two weeks ago and stayed up way past my bedtime and had only gotten one half of the living room done. Last night when I was exhausted and had just folded 4 loads of laundry and watched everyone head upstairs to bed and all I wanted to do was follow them and sleep, I actually WOULD HAVE GONE WITH THEM had it not been for THIS post and you readers who, without knowing it-or even caring, were motivating me to finish it. Now, I can't be more happy that it is done and over with and that I took the extra time! So, thanks for that. ;-)

Family Reads: Finished three in the Narnia series: Prince Caspian, The Magicians Nephew, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (by audiobook-we listen while in the car which suits us well since it takes so long to GET to a store!) David and the Pheonix was started but not finished.

Scripture Memorization: Psalm 3. I couldn't recite it without a few peeks though. :-(

And of the yearly goals I accomplished:

Creating our Budget

February, I am ready for you!

Monday, January 30, 2012

Monday, Monday

(Country dogs have it SOooooooo good.)

(I got the most delicious Peppermint soap I have EVER SMELLED for Christmas this year. EVER. Judah thought so too.)

It is the start of a new week. It is the end of this first month of '12.
The sky is blue. We have peanut butter in the house.

Life is good.

Saturday, January 28, 2012

Friday, January 27, 2012

A Butterfly Life

When butterflies are not flying, they occasionally feed neighboring ponies bits of apple.

It's true.

Wednesday, January 25, 2012

A Winter Bonnet for Corynn

Blogging is always a good motivation...especially when you publicly admit to loony and slightly embarrassing flaws like project addiction.

And that motivation has resulted in a bunch of new FINISHED projects! (*cue applause*)

I plan to draw these projects out in order to squeak every last blog post I can get out of them. wink

For today though~ a winter bonnet for Corynn. I adore anything Elfin so immediately fell in love with the subtle, pointy tip of this hat which turns it very Elfin indeed.

Better still, it is simply a single-crocheted RECTANGLE measured individually ( from jawbone to jawbone) and then stitched up the back. Made with a chunky yarn (Cozy Wool), one skein was the EXACT amount I needed. Couldn't be simpler.

And Corynn L.O.V.E.S. it.

I made it last Friday and she has LITERALLY worn it every single day since~ all day long.

Inside, outside. Awake, in bed. At play, at church.

THAT is the sort of reaction that makes my heart happy and my project-lists multiply exponentially.

Speaking of Jeans and Fleece...

When did Little Miss stretch out? Her cute little stumps look like limbs now- I daresay she even looks a mite bit lanky in this picture!)

Tuesday, January 24, 2012

On Showing Off

If I were to give this year a word for a motto and my expectations for it a name, this years would be unquestionably and without hesitation....

I have been thinking a lot about stewardship these days, the good and the bad.

Perhaps it is because I look around at this new-to-us old, neglected fixer upper we just made our Home~ I see a barn littered with years of once-good-stuff turned into garbage-heaps that we are going to need to clean up; of wrinkled Encyclopedias, kitchen chairs, shoes, tools, egg cartons, lights. I see a barn that is in such disrepair I pray it doesn't fall down before we can safely pull it down. Much of this year is going to be cleaning up after another persons poor stewardship. It is easy for a soul to be pricked under these circumstances.

Maybe it is because I am flipping pages in catalogs and books and my mind as I plan, prepare and dream a new garden into reality and I think 'bigger! Bigger! BIGGER!' and then remember those summer squash I had to compost because they went bad before I could get to them~ the cucumbers that got "puky" or the pumpkins I MEANT to puree that ended up as chicken feed. It is shameful.

Whatever the reason, it just seems to be pressing on my heart. Really, stewardship is the kind of thing that you begin thinking about in droplet sized bits and then turn to find the whole bucket is full to the brim.

Stewardship is universal~ Good stewardship is required of each and every one of us, whether we are given little or much~ we are all called to it, without exception.

And it isn't just about money.

It IS about money. But is it also about time. It is also about that garden that needs weeding, the animals that need to be cared for, our widening bodies that need exercise, the fridge and pantry that need to well stocked, the dinner plates that need filled three times a day, the barn that needs painting, the rose bush that needs pruning, the children that need raising, the mind that needs sharpening, that living room that needs tidying, those dishes that need washing, the shelves that need dusting, the games that need playing, the yard that needs mowing...

Stewardship is about proclaiming Gods goodness by caring for His gifts.... and each of us, from the least to the greatest, are called to do it well.

If we don't do it well we are not only wasteful with His grace, but unthankful for those responsibilities and blessings that God has given us. Worse yet, we disgrace His name by smudging the character of God with our filth. After all, we are to reflect His attributes and I am pretty sure His attributes do not include crusty, dilapidated, filthy or uncared for.

Does a child with torn up clothes and a dirty face at the grocery store get your heart all a'flutter? Does garbage blowing across a yard make you long for a Home place? Does a stinky, nasty bathroom provide comfort?

A dirty, disgusting barn or a cluttered, messy home doesn't declare God's glory anymore than a dinner of SPAM and tatertots does.

He has made us~ His people, RICH (even us poor ones) and we ought to be showing people just how rich we are.

To show off?

To show off the ABUNDANCE of GOD.

In doing so, we are revealing Gods character to innocent passers-by.

But to do this properly, we must have something WORTHWHILE to show. It isn't some gnostic ideal that draws people to God. It isn't even some spiritual place that a person sees and wants for himself. Maybe it is at times, but sometimes it is even more simple than that.

Sometimes it is in those paint- flecked hands painting the window panes.
Sometimes it is in that row of lilies you planted along the lane.
Sometimes it is in the wearing the pretty dress instead of the fleece pullover and jeans.
Sometimes it is on the plate of delicious food with that pretty little garnish on the side.

Oftentimes it is the outworking of our fingertips that reveal Gods character to those who need to see.

Might my fingertips be plenty busy this coming year.

Monday, January 23, 2012

Dinner the other night~ Delicata Bisque with homemade croutons (a touch burned) and Parmesan crisps. It was dark out, the lighting was terrible and for a split second I thought about waiting until the next day to take its' picture then wisely, took a picture anyway; the pot was scraped clean by the end of supper. Everyone lamented having so few Parmesan crisps and even the burnt croutons bits (the burnt side of the crouton that I cut off) were eaten up.

One glorious virtue of winter is a steaming bowl of SOUP.

I used the last of my garden Delicatas, now properly peach and orange with age instead of yellow and green as in summer. I lament that fact now more than ever, knowing I can't make this soup again.

Friday, January 20, 2012

A wet sponge

All week I have been feeling crummy, but the last three days have been just downright debilitating. My head. It hoits.

It finally occurred to me that all the signs point to a sinus infection. (Took me long enough.)

I've been pretty worthless during the days, not getting off the couch unless I must~ even sleeping during naptime (not something I do during my coveted free time)~and I hate being this lazy.

I would really, really like to kick this on my own, without hauling a bunch of kids to a doctors office. Anyone know anything I don't?

This morning I drank some apple cider vinegar. (Now you KNOW I am serious...)

Thursday, January 19, 2012

Jolly Reminder #496

In case you buy store bought eggs...THIS is the color the yoke SHOULD be.

If your egg bread doesn't GLOW, you have problems.

Wednesday, January 18, 2012

A Day in the life of ME

A look at yesterday, a day as ordinary as they get:

5:00~ Alarm buzzes. I bang the SNOOZE and curl into Matt. Just a few more minutes.

5:30-6:00~ Get out of bed. Brrrr. Matt gets dressed, starts the fire, does chores, and heads to work. I kiss him goodbye three times. And then once more. I make myself a cup of Honey Vanilla Chamomile tea. I sit on the couch under a blanket and read. Corynn comes down and reads also. She makes tea using my teabag and thinks it a great secret.

6:45~ Children stir and make their way downstairs. Except the baby, who cries for me to get him. Andrew asks to learn to make scrambled eggs. So he makes them today. With toast and bananas. We pray the Lord's prayer together. I eat cottage cheese for breakfast and a few spoons of yogurt.

7:45~ Corynn decides to compile a riddle book using riddles from her Spelling Workout books so she sets to work. I have a hard time interrupting productive and creative pursuits in the name of 'schooling' because they too, are educational moments. I make a to-do list for the day:
  • send card to friend who is having surgery
  • mail two bills and Netflix
  • Put away laundry (five baskets worth)
  • Make trailmix
  • wash sheets and re-make Adele's bed (SOMEONE had an accident)
  • inventory clothes for a friend

I notice that Judah is waving around a sharp knife and run to take it away. He has pushed a stool to the dish drainer and gotten into the clean silverwear. Again.

8:30~ The children make a living-room size tent~ the kind that uses every square inch, every toy, every blanket, and every piece of furniture available. Read: A BIG MESS.

9:00~ They tidy up the tent and we begin 'formal' schooling. Corynn works on spelling while I work with Andrew on Phonics/reading/writing. Adele' wants to join in so I set her to work tracing lines and coloring pictures.

9:15~ Judah spills my drink and I clean it up. I throw wood on the fire.

10:00~ Corynn begins math. Andrew does some counting/number work. I throw a load of laundry into the washing machine and come back to find that Judah has drawn all over the table with a marker. I thank God for the inventor of washable markers.

11:00~ I read about The Great Composers. Corynn is still working on Math but she has eagle ears. I read a few childrens' stories for Judah and Adele' but I always catch the older two listening too.

11:30~ Andrew and Adele' play together upstairs in the Boys Room. I work on some Grammar with Corynn. I am so far behind in Grammar.

11:45-12:30~ I make lunch. Peanut Butter and Jelly for the children. Each of us prays in turn~ I start, Adele' finishes. While they eat, I read the Bible and discuss what we read and review what we have BEEN reading.

12:30- 2:30~ all the children have rest time. The older ones read, the younger ones sleep. I fix myself a party, take a picture, and blog it. I read a few blogs. I go downstairs and get my rear in gear with Jillian. I hate her. I nearly die. I throw wood on the fire-my legs are shaky. I crochet a bit.

2:45~ Snack time for the children! Trailmix and oranges. The children play for a while.

3:30-4:45~Time for History! Everyone loves history. I read half the chapter and notice that Judah has gotten into the babywipes and pulled every single one out and scattered them throughout the living room. I clean them up and finish reading. The children work together on making a diorama of Beowulf and Grendel.

Matt comes home! SURPRISE! He is usually MUCH later! He heads outside for a walk in the woods.

5:00~ I start supper. Put the wash in the dryer. Head upstairs to put away the laundry. I take Judah with me because a boy who loves to push stools up to places and then investigate is not a good one to leave alone in the kitchen while pots are on the stove. The two older ones go outside to find Papa. Evening chores are done. Adele' plays with playdoh.

5:30-6:45~ Add more wood to the fire. Judah falls backward on the stairs. Only TWO stairs worth of a fall-we are getting better! Corynn sets the table. Matt puts on Mozart. Dinner is served: Ziti Parm and pork tenderloin (we had the pork the night before too), broccoli, applesauce and homemade bread (made the other day).

6:50~ Andrew clears the table. Matt steps right up to the sink to wash the dinner dishes (okay-this was NOT ordinary...but SO VERY PLEASANT A SURPRISE!) and so I take that opportunity to sweep the kitchen and dining room. The children play.

7:00~ I go to the bathroom and, while I am there, clean the toilet.

7:15~ Everyone is waiting for me in the living room for family devotions. But first~ surgery. Andrew gets a huge sliver in his foot. I intend to knit while Matt reads but Andrew asks for me to sit by him. I do. We pray. We quiz. We laugh. We don't sing tonight, but we often do.

7:45~ Matt turns into a bull and starts butting the children. This is one of their favorite games. I know it gets serious when I have to hold Matt's glasses. Then Matt gets out a knot book and tries a few knots.

8:00~ Children get ready for bed. It takes forever. As usual. Matt tucks them in, this night.

8:15~ Matt gets his great-grandfathers diary and reads the entry for today. He gets out our Hopestead Journal and writes in it. Someday maybe our great-grandchildren will read ours.

8:30~ Matt has more work to do for work so he gets out his laptop. I sit next to him and do my own computer "work" har, har. Eventually, I get tired so I head up to bed. But then I remember I have to renew library books so I hop on the computer again and do that. I check on all the children which involves, covering them up tight and stroking their cheek with my finger and then hop into my FREEZING cold bed. I realize I didn't accomplish everything on my to-do list. I never do.

I start writing a letter.

When Matt comes to bed it is 9:45 and he catches up with the doings of Cpt. Jack Aubrey and I catch up with Abigail Adams. I can't recall what time it is we actually turn in, but I do recall how much warmer it is under the covers when there are two instead of one. Even still, I sleep with socks on.

And that is an ordinary day around here. If there is such a thing.

Tuesday, January 17, 2012

Friday, January 13, 2012

An Rx for WIP?

I have become a bit of a yarnie these last few weeks.

I forgot how awfully deterring it is not to have a sewing table, machine ready and waiting for your every whim. Even though I have plenty to sew up, for pleasure AND to mark things off my never-ending to-do lists, it seems so cumbersome to unearth the machine from that pile there under the cradle and find a place to plop it within reach of the ONE outlet each room seems to boast (and, as such, has already been loaded with plugs.)

Instead, I have found yarn to be my recent preoccupation of choice.

The problem is... I seem to be picking up projects as fast as I do strawberries in the spring. And being the slow crocheter that I am, the finishing isn't keeping up with the beginning.

(Matt was out of town and I snuggled in for some chickflick and crochet. There were candles lit , lots of pillows all to myself and I can't be sure, but chocolate mint ice cream may or may not have made an appearance. It was quite luxurious. Pardon the bare walls and curtainless windows. Not too homey just yet.)

A quick count, off the top of my head, of works-in-progress:

one of these dishclothes. For my sister. I only need the white rim around it.

One of these sweaters
. For Judah. In blue

A pair of mittens, minus one-but I don't know where the pattern got to and can't remember WHICH pattern it was on Ravelry. (egads!)

This hat x THREE. (Intending to make two for my girls but it keeps turning out INCREDIBLY SMALL. LIKE NEWBORN SMALL! I have increased the hook size and added rows but this vintage pattern is not doing me ANY favors.)

A knitted shawl. (Did you read the word KNITTED? !!!)

A knitted dishcloth (I am TRYING!)

Three of these bibs (just need the faces)

This copycat shawl was made using this pattern on Ravelry. The basic filet crochet shawl is done but I have not added the star border or fringe since I haven't found a pattern near enough and I am not clever enough to create one myself. I have been wearing it as is, until I decide to finish it. IF I decide to finish it.

This hat, for my nephew, to match his Christmas sweater. (I have the tiniest bit of yarn left to invert the sweater colors and make a brown hat with a turquoise stripe

And these Maryjane slippers. For me. Because I NEED them.

And that is just the projects I have ACTUALLY started. That does not include the projects I am ITCHING to start!!!

I have project piles next to my bed, next to BOTH couches, in TWO project baskets (to carry around with me) and even a project IN THE CAR. It's a sickness I tell you.

PLEASE tell me I am not the only one who has this problem?

Tuesday, January 10, 2012

Without Fail

This is what happens when we head outside to enjoy the unusually warm weather for WINTER and the tractor starts up in the distance:

Judahbear hears it.

He gets up and says "ruahr?", always with a question in his voice and pleading in his eyes. The boychild wants a ride.

Impatient for me to accommodate, he waves goodheartedly

and hightails it outta there.

Then, wouldn't you know?

His Papa, being the swell man he is, stops his work and gives him a bit of a ride.

Just a circle round, but that's all he wanted anyway.

Just a moment of time.

P.S. As you can see, boychild
still has the happy scowl.

P.P.S. These photos were taken awhile ago-the husband sports a very...prolific...beard as of late. For you beard-stalkers out there....you know who you are.

P.P.P.S I helped Judah across the road...for you folks curious.

P.P.P.P.S What kind of a mother do you think I AM?!?!?

Thursday, January 05, 2012

FACT: puzzles with teeny little pieces are infinitely less fun when chubby hands of destruction are nearby.

FACT: everything looks better in glass.

Fact: ladders are NOT good sleds.

FACT: Dishes and me? We don't get along. And yet, interestingly, we hang out together an awful lot.

FACT: I promised myself I wouldn't clutter the front of the fridge. Not doing so well on that. (Lists, anyone?!)

FACT: I don't feel well. Again. This is a perpetual state I have been in since Christmas. One easy way you can tell is by the oranges, something I don't often splurge on unless we are sick.

FACT: I put away the Christmas decorations and the house looked so gloomy and bare, I unpacked a string of lights for the armoire. What can I say? I need sparkle in my life.

Having boys changes everything.


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Tuesday, May 8, 2012

I'm taking up a collection

To get me my own place

These are my options

Good security

Just nice

So, what do you guys think?

My thought is if each of you would just sed me $58,432,976.27
I could have enough to pretty much have my pick.

Get that money in the mail today.

Da is being really hard to put up with this week.

I may take Mumzie with me when I leave, because
she makes really good

I won't move until after Wednesday because Da
and I always go out for

Sonic on Wednesdays

Sonic on Wednesdays?
Maybe I'll stay where I am a while longer

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October 14 2011

Dolly Drive: Time Machine in the Cloud

As many of the Mac AppStorm writers will tell you, backup is important! It is the single thing that is protecting you from massive data loss, hours of frustration and lots of hair pulling.

With the advent of Leopard, Apple released a built-in backup utility that makes backup a breeze, called Time Machine. However, Time Machine was developed for local use only. It will backup to a Firewire or USB hard drive plugged directly into your computer as well as a Time Capsule device on your local Wifi network. While that is a very good thing, natural disasters do occur, as does theft and simple hard drive failure that can put your backup at risk. What if you could use Time Machine to backup to the cloud?

Introducing Dolly Drive

Dolly Drive does just that. It enables you to use Time Machine to backup to a cloud service, called Dolly Grid.

Backing up to Dolly Grid

Backing up to Dolly Grid

Backing up using Dolly Drive just requires a small application that changes a few things about your Time Machine settings. Instead of backing up to a local hard disk or Time Capsule on your local network, it creates a backup that is transferred up to the Dolly Grid.

Dolly Drive main window

Dolly Drive main window

Dolly Drive Backup Status

Dolly Drive Backup Status

Now one thing that must be remembered is the slowness that is associated with online backup. Whether you use Dropbox, CrashPlan or Dolly Drive, your backups are going to take a bit longer than they would if they were backing up to a local hard disk. However, the benefits (protection against theft, hard drive failure or natural disaster) often outweigh the downside of slower backup.

Cloning With Dolly Clone

Once you have your time machine backing up to the cloud, what are you going to do with the hard drive that is sitting idle besides your computer? Use it as a local backup of course! With most of your data secured online, it can takes hours to download your data to get going again after a hard drive failure or loss of some kind. Having a local backup as well a cloud backup will help you get up and running again in a matter of minutes instead of hours.

Since Dolly Drive takes up your Time Machine capabilities, (Apple doesn’t allow for two different Time Machine instances to exist on one Mac at the same time) you will need to use a cloning utility instead. Recently, Dolly Drive added cloning capabilities right inside their application under the name “Dolly Clone.”

Dolly Clone, selecting a source

Dolly Clone, selecting a source

Dolly Clone is about as simple as it gets. You pick what you want backed up and then which drive it should be cloned to. Then you can chose to have Dolly Clone wipe the backup destination and start fresh, or have it smartly update the drives to be clones of each other. The latter is done by determining the differences between the two drives and then adjusting the destination drive to match the original.

Pricing Online Backup

Dolly Drive is a subscription service (with Dolly Clone being a free download for everyone). They have a few different plans starting at $5/month for 50GB, going up to $10/month for 250GB and even $55/month for 2TB of storage (there are discounts available if your pay in advance). Each plan comes with an extra 5GB per month that you remain a customer. Since Time Machine backups continuously expand, it’s a great bonus to using Dolly Drive.

The two main competitors to Dolly Drive appear to be CrashPlan and Backblaze. However, these don’t utilize the built-in Time Machine system to backup. They each charge $5/month for unlimited backup. It’s important to note though that restoring from these services generally requires logging onto their website and downloading a .zip file. This is much less fluid than using Time Machine to connect to your Dolly Drive backup and restoring from there.

Dolly Drive for Lion, at the time of writing is still in Beta. There are a few bugs that should be fixed with Lion’s 10.7.2 backup, according to Dolly Drive. However it worked splendidly for me.

It is stuck with the normally slow internet backup problem that all of its competitors also face. With a normal home connection, the Internet isn’t really fast enough to match local backup speeds. While it isn’t Dolly Drive’s fault, it is something to think about if you plan to start backing up terabytes of data.

Because it is using Time Machine to backup, there isn’t a way to access your files on a mobile device or different computer, even if your files are located in the cloud.

Should you start using Dolly Drive for cloud backup? I would say yes if you haven’t ever tried online backup. Being so deeply integrated with the Mac operating system is fantastic. I found their support to be exceptional as well. If you are already backed up with another online backup service, I would be a bit weary. This is mainly due to the amount of time that it would take to get all of your data in the cloud again.

Do you use an online backup service? Have you tried out Dolly Drive? Let us know in the comments!

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Monday, October 31, 2011

Win tickets to Active Child & M*3 live at the Crescent Ballroom on November 7th!

Win a pair a tickets to see Active Child and M83 live at the Crescent Ballroom in Phoenix on Thursday, November 7th! To enter, send an email titled 'ACTIVE ZIA' to and include your name, number & address. One entry per person - contest ends November 4TH at 11AM (AZ Time).

Stop by your local ZIA to pick up the latest Active Child album "You Are All I See" to get ready for an amazing show!

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Zig gives us a paradigm shift for how we can view ourselves in a new light. A better light. With classic down to earth, practical application. This is a 16 minute clip from Zig followed by a discussion by hosts Kevin Miller and Tom Ziglar


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Thursday, June 2, 2011

The Invention of the Jewish People {EDITOR' S PICK}

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Bestselling new analysis of Jewish history by a leading Israeli historian. A historical tour de force that demolishes the myths and taboos that have surrounded Jewish and Israeli history, The Invention of the Jewish People offers a new account of both that demands to be read and reckoned with. Was there really a forced exile in the first century, at the hands of the Romans? Should we regard the Jewish people, throughout two millennia, as both a distinct ethnic group and a putative nation—returned at last to its Biblical homeland?

Shlomo Sand argues that most Jews actually descend from converts, whose native lands were scattered far across the Middle East and Eastern Europe. The formation of a Jewish people and then a Jewish nation out of these disparate groups could only take place under the sway of a new historiography, developing in response to the rise of nationalism throughout Europe. Beneath the biblical back fill of the nineteenth-century historians, and the twentieth-century intellectuals who replaced rabbis as the architects of Jewish identity, The Invention of the Jewish People uncovers a new narrative of Israel’s formation, and proposes a bold analysis of nationalism that accounts for the old myths.

After a long stay on Israel’s bestseller list, and winning the coveted Aujourd’hui Award in France, The Invention of the Jewish People is finally available in English. The central importance of the conflict in the Middle East ensures that Sand’s arguments will reverberate well beyond the historians and politicians that he takes to task. Without an adequate understanding of Israel’s past, capable of superseding today’s opposing views, diplomatic solutions are likely to remain elusive. In this iconoclastic work of history, Shlomo Sand provides the intellectual foundations for a new vision of Israel’s future.

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I warned him, I tried to persuade him but no, stubborn Eetio didn't give in to the whole 'Authenticator = Security' malarky and has officially been hacked. All is good though, he's going to be getting his stuff back and we found out who the hacker was so they should be getting their account permanently banned soon! Plus, finally Eetio's gave in and has adopted his own Core Hound Pup, that's right, he's now officially using an Authenticator (Mine to be precise ;D) Ok, so what the hell do you care? My brother got hacked for some obscure reason, and now he has to pay by waiting a week on his chars gear etc to be replaced, well the same could happen to you guys if you don't adopt an Authenticator today! Think about it, you could have played on that account, worked hard on a few characters for a few years and what is £6 to ensuring your account is safe? Exactly :D and you get a awesome little Core Hound Pup to go with it!

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Last week, the Coalition on Human Needs (CHN) and presented a fantastic webinar on the importance of telling your story. As advocates, we may understand the value of statistics, lobby meeting “leave behinds”, and fact sheets, but we sometimes forget the need for powerful stories.

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To Be Continued…   Leave a comment

The Endless British Pub Crawl is dead! *

Last EBPC upload

*This is the last post on THIS blog site.  I have used up my entire allotment of media space for so this remains, as long as wordpress will allow it to, as an archive of the first 6 years (almost) of the Endless British Pub Crawl.  I also have an offline version stored (a bit more than a DVD’s worth) for shits and giggles once this archive leaves the ether.  If you are still interested in following my progress toward a) drinking in every pub in the country, b) running coast-to-coast and North-to-South, and c) becoming British (both figuratively and literally), you’ll find the Endless British Pub Crawl Continues at

This was never supposed to last this long.  When I started the blog in January 2009, I had been in Britain 5 days and thought it might be a good way to dump some photos and post some updates where a few friends back home could find them and without having to post or email them individually with items that all of them would be getting, anyway.  I thought it might last into the middle of Spring at most.  But, I found the landscape and culture too compelling (and this medium as both a diary and a newsletter too personally entertaining) to quit.  Now, it has metastasized into a sick addiction…and the few regular readers that stick with it are just perverse voyeurs (God-love-ye!).

I don’t think the writing will improve much as this continues but I will, initially at least, strive for quality in lieu of quantity.  And, more frequent knob jokes.  See you there.

* Long live the Endless British Pub Crawl!

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Sometime overnight the blog got hit #300,000.  Not bad considering this should only be of interest (very limited interest at that) to a dozen or so Americans.  Steady, day-to-day but it restores my faith that at least the number of clicks have fallen off this past year or so. Rest of you are a bunch of freaks.

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The Endless Pub Crawl Map (2012-09-17)   Leave a comment

[Note: Google has a somewhat improved version I have shifted the maps to, all on one view.  You can use the link to the left or here]

I have exceeded the limits of Google maps (their KML file parser only allows 1000 features, and while I don’t know what the other three are, 997 were the first batch of pubs).  You can still browse the maps, but there is a link to page numbers at the bottom, with roughly 200 per page so I’ve pulled the link until I can find a bit of mapping software more drunken runner friendly.  Here were some of the milestones:

Pub #1, The Red Lion, our local in Stretham when we first moved here; a mere 87 yard stumble, downhill along walls to our front door.

Pub #100 fell the day before my first British birthday, during a lunch run to Granchester from the labs in Cambridge. Almost exclusively London, Cambridgeshire, and Kent at this point.

Pub #500, 10 September 2010: Density around Bicester, Oxford and parts of London are beginning to look like Cambridge and Ely.

Today (17 September 2012) with 1029 pubs down. My vacation is nearly over and even with the 10 or more mile-per-day September running still on, it is looking less likely that I’ll be adding many in the next few weeks. I’ll do updates of the map at each new 100, though.

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Reflections on 1000 pubs or, now 1002   1 comment

“You’ll have to excuse me, I’m not at my best.
I’ve been gone for a week, I’ve been drunk since I left.
These so-called vacations will soon be my death.
I’m so sick from the drink, I need home for a rest.”
_____from Home For A Rest by Mann and Kelly_____

My favourite pub (and the first British pub I ever visited), the Canny Man’s in Edinburgh, is not written up in this blog nor are dozens of others that predate our term of residence in this spectacular nation. They were visited during one of several trips for job interviews, work, conferences, or vacations and this sort of self-indulgent, public diary would never have crossed my mind back then.

This collection remains here to entertain myself and a small number of friends and if any of it offends then it probably isn’t for you. Every now and then, someone takes great offence at my reports on what I experience and demand I edit to suit their desires (and often threaten bodily harm). I doubt that any of the few hundred people per day that visit one or another of these posts makes a decision about patronising a bar based on my poor prose or snarky observations; any that do are as deluded as those would-be Ministry of Truth officers.

For me, the 1000th was always going to be just another pub, and an annoying one, at that. When I exceeded 100, most people acted as though they thought it was bullshit until the number got out of the 100’s; the same thing happened with 500, with incredulity only waning as I approached 600. These doubts usually are stated as, “oh, and you keep a count of these, do you?” Fuck me, I write a blog post for each one and the metadata is logged in an Excel spreadsheet…welcome to the 21st century support for functional alcoholics. Here are some of the sorts of details I can access.

19 January 2009: commence British residence
19 January 2010: 1 year, 293 pubs so far
19 January 2011: 2 years, 531 pubs so far
19 January 2012: 3 years, 811 pubs so far

Pub #1: Red Lion, Stretham, Cambridgeshire, 19 January 2009
Pub #100: The Red Lion, Granchester, Cambridgeshire, 29 May 2009
Pub #200: Cherry Tree, Newmarket, Suffolk, 31 July 2009
Pub #300: White Horse, Witcham, Cambridgeshire, 31 January 2010
Pub #400: SportsBar in Marylebone Station, St John’s Wood, London, 30 May 2010
Pub #500: Wetherspoons, Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, 10 September 2010
Pub #600: Boundary House, Swindon, Wiltshire, 28 May 2011
Pub #700: The Commercial Rooms, Bristol, Somerset, 11 September 2011
Pub #800: Wheatsheaf, Lower Woodford, Wiltshire, 8 January 2012
Pub #900: Plough, Clanfield, Oxfordshire, 4 May 2012
Pub #1000: Red Lion, East Chisenbury, Wiltshire, 9 September 2012

Most visited pub names:

The Red Lion – 36 (includes 1 “Ye Olde Red Lion”)
The Crown – 16
The Plough – 16
The White Hart – 15
The King’s Arms – 12
The White Horse – 12
The Black Horse – 11
The Swan – 11
The Wheatsheaf – 11
The Prince of Wales – 10

I remember a surprisingly large number (most in fact) of the pubs I have visited due to the exercise of writing up something about the occasion, even if it has nothing to do with the pub itself nor, even, reality. Some of my personal favourite write-ups (not all are pubs) include:

The Baron of Beef, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, 06 February 2009 (makes me laugh)
The Chequers, Cottenham, Cambridgeshire, 08 March 2009 (aerosols and discarded pants)
The Prince Regent, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, 11 March 2009 (oh, the hangover….)
The Goat Tavern, Kensington, London, 19 March 2009 (Chicago Cubs references)
The Cock, Hemigford Grey, Cambridgeshire, 30 May 2009 (first birthday here)
Snowdonia Marathon, 24 October 2009 (several pub stops, awesome run)
The Dog and Duck, Linton, Cambridgeshire, 06 January 2010 (puzzle and last night out in Cambridgeshire)
London Underround Birthday Pub Crawl, 30 May 2010 (ludicrous, but good birthday out in London)
The Crown, Penzance, Cornwall, 31 December 2010 (our 25th Anniversary)
The Langley Tap, Langley Burrell, Wiltshire, 11 September 2011 (landlord had pint waiting for me during Chippenham Half Marathon)
London Marathon, 22 April 2012 (a high point of sorts, 5 pubs and more)
What a bunch of dicks (I’m probably not welcome at alumni golf tournament anymore)
Florence religious tourism (from Florence Marathon trip, I should grow up someday)
and, any of the ones tagged “Made Me Laugh”

After this present vacation ends next week, I predict the pace falling off dramatically for a while. Maybe, at least, the writing will get better when I have a new one to report.

On to 1500! It might even coincide with my citizenship/naturalisation application….

Over 100,000 visitors to this blog (WTF?)   1 comment

Sometime during the Swindon Half Marathon the 100,000th visit to this blog occurred.  That’s really ridiculous: I have a couple of dozen acquaintances that should be interested in some of this stuff, and two or three friends that check in now-and-again but even spread out over nearly three years this is a surprising amount of traffic that has to be attributed to strangers or the strange.  I can only imagine that it must be down to the subject matter because I know the prose isn’t grand; on the other hand, all the articles are short as befits the attention span of typical net users and there is always the threat of puerile humour and nudity so maybe this isn’t so surprising after all.  Just because I don’t have a mature life doesn’t mean you can’t get one (I’m just saying…).

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So it has come to this…1000 posts in less than 3 years (975 days, to be precise).

In that time we have come quite far together:  712 pub stops, 4025 miles running (1740 unique miles in the UK, at that), almost 96000 views of this blog  (averaging about 200/day the last few months after slow beginnings) and tons of ridiculous shit that I should bring me disgrace.  In that same time, I have only managed my way onto one proper publication (with acknowledgements in a few others, although another paper from the Cambridge work is almost finished) and one patent, and for that meager output I truly am ashamed; but, my big bag of guilt still has a bit of spandex left and, besides, I left plenty of tired, old impropriety across the Atlantic to make room for new experiences so let’s keep piling it in.

One of my favourite pub experiences was early on at the Chequers in Cottenham which I hope has reopened since we left the area. I have some favourite pubs in various places but no one favourite nationwide yet.  The map, linked here and over to the left of the page gives you the names of pubs reviewed or otherwise used as a template for my blather in this document and makes a nearly comprehensive reference for planning a pub crawl in Oxford, Swindon, Cambridge, Ely, Faringdon, Kidlington and Bicester; many other areas are covered less extensively but it should continue to grow over the coming years.

Pub count by date...summer surge came late this year

Here are some of my favourite posts out of that ridiculous collection, if you are at all interested or just bored:

Picking on the deceased, especially one’s betters, is always worthy: Arthur Stanley Eddington plaque.    Other times, the sciences offer jobs that are hard to resist (but the job has been filled and removed from the HR site since then).  Never sure if it was an attractant or repellent, and still don’t understand what the dog had to do with it (unless it was a Cocker).

Many articles about running as tourism have been posted, but some are better than others.  Place names tend to be the best for humour…like these here.  Or this one. We actually drove about 10 miles out of our way one weekend trip for this hamlet, but the signs have been stolen so often they stopped putting them up.  Claims to never having paid for it aside, this was a nice if mistaken sightDeep in Cambridgeshire you find some good place names, and they seem to treat strangers well on Hills Road Cambridge.  Our first trip to Wales resulted in disappointment with this highway’s promise.

The daily Haiku was a feature early on, before I realised just how many pubs were going to be reviewed.  The best ones happened spontaneously like this one on a trip to London.

As I write this I am suffering stigmata…okay, I accidentally stabbed myself in the palm with a screwdriver this morning.  Still, religion figures into the blog from time-to-time as it did about the ex-masturbators and the fisting-for-Jesus folks.  In Italy, it is hard to escape the influence of the Church and so we gave into its temptations.

An eternal Dylan fan and no stranger to public nudity and substance abuse, I felt kinship with these guys.  Other times the news is just ironic on its own.  Romance is alive and well in Ireland, as this guy proves.

With luck running will continue and I’ll cover many more miles of virgin territory and review loads of worthy races (although my feelings have not changed for the ‘Finisher’s Medal’).  Barely 1/10 of 1% into the stock of pubs to visit, I should be able to maintain this pace of coverage for awhile, as well.  Best, to all, and here’s to 1000 more of this nonsense.

Pub Calling Cards to greet the 700th (and others)   Leave a comment

I stopped handing out the “this is pub # xxx since 19 January 2009” cards sometime after the 550th pub.  Since then I’ve spotted two of these in pubs, one framed and one just propped against a darts trophy.  Cool.  I’ll start again next week when I hit #670.  Here’s the template I’m using at least through #719:

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We covered building the unique elements of a bioscience team in the last post.  Now we will look at building a great software team, with some thoughts on what that means in traditional software products, business applications and consumer digital companies.  Most of the digital opportunities I see don’t emerge from research institutions, so we will focus on software that emerges from the general community of talent in the world.

For a horizontal software application – think of databases, utilities, b/i tools, etc. – that are primarily sold to IT buyers for IT users, the founder is typically a practitioner who sees some gap in the always creatively destructive software market and fills the breach.  This happens constantly, the infrastructure of what we see in business applications, is constantly being rebuilt using new tools.  These evolutions happen around every 10 years it seems, but there are segments of the infrastructure world that change under the covers while the user experience doesn’t change.  Buzz word though it may be, the movement to cloud computing may be the most disruptive yet, as it is obliterating the cost structure of a lot of existing companies and markets, while creating interesting opportunities for others.  There are large software companies in the enterprise space that are under assault from Amazon just as much as the traditional book business.  A good founder in this space is both a good practitioner, but may not a great one, but has the ability to look at the impact of changes in the complex world of IT infrastructure and develop something quickly that, while not need today, will be needed by everyone in a few years.

A great example of that in my career was Gaurav Dhillon, founder of Informatica in the 90’s and now the founder of SnapLogic.  I met Gaurav when Informatica was still in fresh in the market.  He explained how he had come up with the idea for a better way to move data – it was batch oriented at the time – while working for a large company in Europe, but they didn’t think it was that interesting.  Gaurav knew that the data warehouse boom was coming and that people would demand a better way to move data from transaction systems to large data warehouses.  And because he knew it would happen he founded Informatica and willed the company to become an IPO and continued relevance today.  He built a great team, surrounded himself with smart investors and simply out-performed the field.  Today Gaurav is back with a relatively new start-up that focuses on how to move data with cloud infrastructure.  The need is the same, but the game is changing and he knows it.  I wouldn’t bet against him and this blog post by Ben Horowitz perfectly describes what a founder looks and acts like.  I love this quote: “Although, Informatica is considered a great success, it isn’t a great success for Gaurav, because he deeply believes that both the idea and his ability to execute it exceed the outcome that he achieved.”  And if you read the entire post you’ll see both that Gaurav made a lot of money at Informatica, and that money does not drive him.  Most great founders are shocked to be rich when they get there.  They almost forget that is a by-product of success.  In the application software market you need a bit of a different kind of obsessed practitioner, more of a business leader in a functional area, but they need to have the same insight around how software responds to business needs.  Both Tom Siebel and Marc Benioff were executives at Oracle with sales experience.  They each saw the need for CRM, and one eventually displaced the other by deploying a new type of infrastructure.

The founder of the great software company is almost always a great product evangelist and will drive the first sales.  But early sales don’t mean much unless they can be repeated by less visionary, less willful sales people or channel partners.  In the end one person can only sell so much software on their own, so the great founder now needs a great sales leader.  I have described these characteristics in a previous post, and I don’t really think much has changed.  Read it again for the key qualities, but you cannot compromise on this position.  Too many CEOs mistake their ability to sell with willfulness as a gift that can infect others.  The opposite is more likely true.  Sales success comes from simplifying the message so that any competent, trained sales rep can deliver it.  You shouldn’t need virtuoso skills to sell a compelling product.  You need process, good packaging and pricing, and great competitive materials and training.  A good sales leader will have carried a number bigger than your 2 year plan, know the first five people he/she is going to hire, and have a Rolodex (there’s a Brand name that endures longer than the product itself) of qualified buyers that they will have already talked to before they come on board.

Some companies need a CTO, but it’s not always an early hire.  The mistake is often to put the founder’s coder friend in that role, but that makes sense only if that person is a visionary, good in a market facing role, and really owns the product vision.  And I don’t know that too many business application companies need a CTO.  And having a CTO does not obviate the need for an engineering lead.  Someone with product development experience who is willing to be held accountable to a schedule is first priority, then figure out if you need a glamour CTO.  The most underappreciated position in any software company is product manager.  You need a product champion that manages the natural tension between market need (tractable, infinitely broad) and technical team output (overly optimistic, sometimes too creative).  Software is just too easy to write today, and it is very easy to create too much of the wrong thing and little of the right thing in an application, website or other product.  The product manager must be technically conversant, maybe a developer who hates to code but is good w/ users, but not impressed by just more output.

The team is rounded out by someone that can drive awareness and lead generation for the company, but great early stage sales leaders and their teams are usually not terribly dependent on marketing.  I think it is often better to invert the concept of lead generation in the beginning.  One of our companies has about 200 target customer to tackle this year.  The buyer is easily identified, the readiness of each account to buy is probably easily discerned in a first call/visit, and then you can move on.  A similar approach, maybe easier, works when you are building a company through indirect sales.  The best distributors can be identified and pursued.  Marketing is an important task, but a great company in the hands of great sales/biz dev people need less lead generation and more competitive information, case studies, and other things that bring credibility to the transaction.

Finally, you need a great transactional lawyer and a great CFO/VP of Finance with industry experience.  This may not be a full-time need in the seed stage, probably not.  But you do need a robust revenue and cash flow model, industry standard contracts and transaction advice, and all the right employment agreements, comp plans and other operational tools of the business.  This is a lot to assemble, and we try to add what is missing, augment with proven p/t professionals, and then scale the team.  I do think a seed stage company can’t make much progress with three good legs to the stool.  In a software company that’s the founder, sales lead and VP of Engineering.  In Part III we’ll talk about how a great team really works together, how they act, and the most important characteristic they must share.


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Life 2.0 – Health Professionals Seminar

Examining the potential for well-being and resilience both in ourselves and our patients

Date: Tuesday 23rd May 2017

Location: Allianz Park, NW4

26825166250_aec5a2bbba_zaThe Healthcare sector is one of high demands, high pressure and high responsibility. With budget cuts and legal pressures that only seems to be getting worse. In this context it is generally believed that stress and pressure is an unavoidable fact of the environment. This seminar has been created to address how stress and emotional wellbeing can be better understood in this context.

Whilst the common belief may be that our circumstances, environment, and the people around us create the experience of life. The Three Principles understanding, also known as Innate Health, points to the role of the mind in generating our feelings, emotions, and perceptions. If this is true then the possibility for a new experience of life is not limited by circumstances at all.

Featuring a host of experts and patients, this training day will focus on examining the implications and effect this understanding has for committed health professionals and their patients. It will highlight the potential for the significant long term reduction of chronic stress and the elimination of burnout, along with examining its potential within the mental health field generally.

GPs, Consultants, senior health care professionals and HR managers - £120 - click here.

All other Healthcare professionals - £75 - click here.

For subsidies or other details - click here.

We are an accredited member of the CPD Certification Service with whom this event is being certified.

9.30am –

Introduction to the Day

Whilst the common belief may be that life circumstances and the people around us create our feelings, sensations, and perceptions, a fresh understanding of the mind points to the key role in generating our experience. This is doubly relevant in the healthcare profession.
Professor Anthony Kessel & Dr George Pransky

09.50am – 10.30am

"Looking after ourselves first"

The challenge of dealing with stress and burnout in the healthcare profession.

The Healthcare sector is one of high demands, high pressure and high responsibility, with budget cuts and legal pressures that only seems to be getting worse. In this context it is generally believed that stress and pressure is an unavoidable fact of the environment. This session will focus on this stress and pressure from a Principle based perspective, specifically examining the implications and effect this understanding has for for committed health professionals and the potential for significant reductions of chronic stress and the elimination of the imminent danger of burnout.
Dr Mark Howard

10.30am – 10.50am

10.50am - 11.30am

Practitioners stories panel - Personal experiences from the "coalface"

This session will focus on the reported outcomes that health care professionals have observed and experienced in relation to their 3 Principles understanding. It will be a chance to see how an engagement with a new understanding of the mind affects the day to day experience of health care professionals in a range of positions within health and mental health services

Dr Rani Bora, and a panel of health care professionals

11.30pm – 12.20pm

What is this new understanding?

This session is a chance to step back and get an overview of what is being discussed. The session will focus on and outline the essential new understanding of the mind that is covered by the phrase "The Three Principles".

Dr George Pransky

12.20pm – 1.45pm

1.45pm – 2.45pm

Breakouts - An examination of how this approach impacts different areas of practice

No Health Without Mental Health Drs Rani Bora & William Pettit
The 3 Principles Single Paradigm in a Hospital Project Dr Keith Blevens
The Three Principles Understanding in Social Care Chantal Burns
2.45pm – 3.25pm

A Journey with patients - Moving from a Disease to Health model as a Mental Health professional.

As a perspective on the mind, the Three Principles has implications for the way we see and understand mental health and mental disfunction. This session will outline the shift in  perspective on mental health and illness as a result of Dr Pettit taking the implications of The Principles seriously. Most specifically it will focus on the significance of focusing on the potential for mental health as a way of dealing with issues of mental dysfunction rather than the existing focus on expertise in diagnosis and disfunction and the difference this has made in his work and results over the last 40 years.

Dr William Pettit

3.25pm - 3.45pm

3.45pm – 4.30pm

Questions & Answers

An assembled panel is convened of experienced health and mental health professionals who have worked both with an understanding of the principles and without. This session will be a chance to draw on their observations, experiences and to ask more specific questions about the relationship of understanding the principles to their life and work as healthcare professionals.
Hosted by Professor Anthony Kessel
4.30pm - 4.40pm

Professor Anthony Kessel & Dr George Pransky
Professor Anthony Kessel is a public health physician, medical ethicist and a GP. Over the past eight years Anthony has led the international health work of the country’s national public health agency as Director of Global Public Health at Public Health England, and Director of Public Health Strategy, Director of R&D and Medical Director at the Health Protection Agency. Anthony’s other leadership responsibilities in these roles have included antimicrobial resistance, climate change, clinical governance, and responsibility for the revalidation and professional performance of over 600 medical consultants across the national public health system. Previously, Anthony was Director of Public Health and Medical Director at Camden Primary Care Trust.
Throughout this period, Anthony has also held a university position as Honorary Professor and Co-ordinator of the International Programme for Ethics, Public Health and Human Rights at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. He has an active research portfolio and over 100 publications in areas of public health and medical humanities, including a sole author book Air, the Environment and Public Health(Cambridge University Press, 2006). Anthony has also authored a children’s book The Amazing Adventures of Perch the Cat (Matador, 2013), and writes a personal column exploring his global health leadership work through a lens of psychological wellbeing, ‘Global Health Experience’ (
georgeDr George Pransky is one of the two professional founders of the understanding of The Principles of Mind, Thought and Consciousness. He has taught the Principles for over thirty years to individuals, couples, businesses and colleagues. Dr Pransky is the author of The Relationship Handbook and over fifty audio recordings. During his career he has served on the faculty of three graduate universities and continues to pioneer this understanding in new industries. Currently he is a partner at Pransky and Associates and on the executive committee of the Three Principles Global Community.
Rani Bora is a Holistic Psychiatrist and Wellness Coach. She has worked in the NHS as a Consultant Psychiatrist in Rehabilitation and Recovery. Last November, she resigned from her substantive, full time job to work independently as well as pursue her passion in sharing about The Principles of Innate Health to a wider audience. She had served as a Clinical Lead for Schwartz Centre Rounds for NHS staff to promote compassionate care and as an Associate Clinical Director in her previous role. She has conducted several training and coaching workshops for both staff and patients on the concept of coaching and recovery and psycho-education to list a few. Rani has published articles and booklets on well-being, coaching for Mental Health Recovery and empowering people. As her own understanding about the “Inside-out” nature of human experiences continues to deepen, she is seeing more and more positive changes in her own life and in her patients and clients.
mark howard Dr Mark Howard is a licensed psychologist who is the founder of the “Three Principles Institute” located in Burlingame, California. He recently retired from Kaiser Permanent Redwood City Chemical Dependency Services after 27 years of service. Dr Howard is recognized as one of the professionals bringing the Three Principles to psychology and related fields. He was introduced to the principles in 1982. He has taught clients, families, business professionals, and mental health practitioners about these principles. In 1994 he brought the understanding of these Three Principles to the Department of Alcohol and Drug Services in Santa Clara County California. In 2008, Dr Howard was awarded the “Outstanding Career Service” award by the Santa Clara Psychological Association for bringing the principles to Santa Clara County, California.
Dr bill pettitDr William Pettit Jr., is a staff psychiatrist for Community Psychiatry in Tecumseh, Michigan. In addition he also sees individuals, families and small groups for two to four day retreats.  A graduate of Creighton University, Omaha, NE and the University of Illinois College of Medicine, Chicago, IL, Dr. Pettit has presented the Principles of Mind, Thought and Consciousness as the essence of his psychiatric practice since 1983. He is certified in Psychiatry, Adolescent Psychiatry, Geriatric Psychiatry, Psychosomatic Medicine and Addiction Medicine.

keith Keith Blevens, Ph.D. is a licensed clinical psychologist with degrees from Indiana University and Texas Technological University. He first met Sydney Banks in 1977. He has taught the Three Principles in businesses, neuropsychiatric hospitals, rape treatment, community mental health and private practice. He has been an adjunct faculty member at six universities and Director of a major university counseling center. He has served as a teacher, trainer and consultant to executives, businesses, organizations, psychologists, helping professionals, individuals, couples and families.


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“Who here has used a clean toilet today?”

If you are like me, you probably said “Yes” to the above question.  We will revisit it later in this article.  When Auerbach and Vallabhaneni opened with that question to the audience little did they know that they would walk away … Continue reading

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Sunday, May 4, 2014

Who is your grill father?

I LOVE the new masculine stamps from Art Impressions.  Here is just one of my new stamps all inked and ready to be mailed.  I embellished with Freckled Fawn Washi tape and little wood chip.  I had to add some billowing smoke, which is a common sight when we grill out around here!

Copic Markers used:
Skin: E21, E50, R00, R20
  Clothes:  YR68, YR18, C1, C5, B91, B93, B97
Other:  BG70, E42, T3

I'm entering this in the challenge at Art Impressions,
Challenge 134, Anything Goes Masculine!

  1. Melissa, this is totally awesome!!! Love him!!! :)

  2. How funny! Love the card, especially that smoke! :D

  3. I love these new sets so much and you did such a great job with this! The colors work so well together. Thank you for joining us at Art Impressions this week. ~Renee


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