Death is nothing.  But to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.
I’m sure he’s talking about wars and battles, but it reminds of the faces I saw every day when I used to commute via subway in NYC.  That was inspiration to make changes, but the change that happened – moving to the ‘burbs – just meant I commuted in a cocoon (ie car) and was still unwittingly trapped.  I’ll have to read up a bit more on Napoleon’s military strategy and see if I can find some more …

With a ridiculously busy week ahead of us.  Packing, selling, stopping utilities, doing taxes, vet trips, document acquisitions, etc, etc and etc.  It’s safe to say that we may not post again until after we become expats.
Of course, now that I’ve said that, I’ll be compelled to post before we fly.

We’re moving in 16 days, we still have to pack & get rid of stuff, and the prospect of life without a steady paycheck looms.  Am I nervous?  Yep.  But I’m not afraid.  I keep coming back to Joseph Campbell’s quote on the experience of being alive.  That’s what it feels like right now, being alive & present.
It probably helps that I don’t believe in luck as much as believing in being prepared for opportunity.   A great post at Get Rich Slowly this weekend covered this very nicely:  1) Only …

I just read another amazing article by Gloria Lemay in which she talks about the dangers of induction.  But it was a quote at the end of the article, coming from Linda Hessel, that brought to mind my post from earlier this week on the difficulties of choosing a homebirth midwife.  Here is the quote by Hessel, via Lemay’s blog:
We all want to see women empowered to make truly informed choices about their care. Unfortunately, most birthing women tend to simply trust that their birth attendant will know what is …

1.  School Recess Improves Behavior
No big shock here.  You can pick & choose the basic reasons why – all work & no play makes Jose a dull boy?  Or perhaps that punishment doesn’t work?  (see Alfie Kohn’s Punished by Rewards)  Or, as many critics of homeschooling say, that kids need school to be ‘socialized’ – then perhaps they should be allowed to be social instead of cooped up in a classroom being trained for a cubefarm.
2. Too Many Online Friends? Time to Delete
I’ve never quite gotten the whole concept …