Mike Vardy

Remembering: The Least We Can Do

I have always observed this day, but this year I had an experience while travelling that brought more to this day than I’d ever thought about before. I was in LAX waiting for my flight home and decided to go to McDonald’s to grab a meal while I waited. I stood inline behind a tall […]

Nice Emails

I was having a discussion with my friend Dave Morris tonight about comments that you receive on your website. Some of the comments we get don’t add much to the conversation, but most add a whole lot. I really appreciate the comments left here — and on articles I have written (and will write) elsewhere.

“You Never Rest…”

“You never rest.” – Ben Folds Five, Battle of Who Could Care Less There’s a lot of pushing going on in my life lately. It’s the good kind of pushing, but it’s still pushing. And when you’ve got a lot of it going on, you tend to get tired easier. Your constitution also gets compromised

The Age of The Workplace Philosopher

“It’s hard to judge an era while still in the middle of it, but from all accounts I think this Age of Workplace Philosopher represents an exciting shift in our thinking about work and happiness. The more seriously we struggle with the question of “What defines a good working life?”, the better off we are.”

Pills

I’ve been taking a variant of these all day. I got some writing done, but not much. I’m fine with that because I’m not fine as a whole today. So, I guess I did enough. Now that I’ve written this, I’ll start working on getting fine again. Oh, and Breaking Bad just showed up on

Spotted at CREATIVEMIX

This is pure awesome.1 This creative concept is courtesy of Jeneese Marchand, a first year student in the IDEA Program at Capilano University in North Vancouver, BC. Jeneese drew from her own experiences. I can totally relate. Man, I am glad I decided here. 1. A bigger version of the pure awesome is here.

NaNoWriMowing Means…

Less words here today. But more words elsewhere… And the words came to me sooner than the word count widgets came to NaNoWriMo. 3312 and counting…