Mike Vardy

“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…

The Top 10 Opinionated Countdown

I’m embarking on NaNoWriMo and wanted to get ahead on my 50,000 words to start things off. So rather than post some fresh material I thought I’d refresh some older stuff that I rather enjoyed writing here, there and everywhere. It’s my Top 10 Opinionated Countdown…in no particular order. Enjoy. 1. Struggling vs. Smuggling Wherein

More Trick Than Treat

Gee…thanks, Google. Why’d you organize my RSS bookshelf while I was busy Halloween-ing? Not cool. This is why I use Reeder.

Boo

Have a happy one, folks. It’d be scary if you didn’t.