HACKING MINDFULNESS

Back when I was in college, I had just begun training in martial arts and I was obsessed. I trained three times a week and every day at home. I read every book I could get my hands on. I was not very skilled, but I absolutely burned up with pursuing it. This came to a halt abruptly when I sustained a knee injury. Luckily, it was not anything serious, but the doctor did tell me in no uncertain terms that I could not train for a month. He might as well have been telling me I w

My grandmother passed away very unexpectedly when I was about 10 years old. She was killed by a shoplifter while he was in the course of stealing a belt and a pair of shoes. Needless to say, this came as a horrific shock to my whole family. I was very, very close with my grandmother and she remains one of the kindest people I ever met. I remember being there for some of the time at the hospital and the funeral, but in the aftermath, there were a lot of things that my parents

Believe it or not, when I started professional legal writing, one of the first things I got was a dictionary. If you look in the procedural rules, the Washington Supreme Court specifically endorses a dictionary. The reason is because you frequently have to dive very deeply into seemingly insigificant words. This "dictionary mind" has definitely lead me down some interesting rabbit trails. I encountered one recently and wanted to share in case this helps anyone else. "Humili

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In all aspects of my life, I am a student of the human mind and how it works. I am an attorney by trade. I am a writer, martial artist,...