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Neighborcycling - a Change The World Wednesday Discovery (#ctww)

2012-01-29T08:05:00.000-08:00

Take my word for it - There's a birdbath in there which was Neighborcycled We've all heard of recycling, and I've often talked about "freecycling", but my latest discovery is "Neighborcycling" - moving on usable goods, for which we have no current use, to our neighbors. This is just a normal part of being neighborly but it depends on reaching out and making contact with the people on our

Early 4freeCLE Newsletter - Jan 27, 2012

2012-01-28T22:19:00.000-08:00

I was going to wait until Monday for the next issue, but I suddenly learned of a couple of webinars early next week and didn't want anyone to miss them: 4freeCLE: The Free CLE Newsletter!Jan 27, 2012 Top 3 Modes of Presenting Free CLE Nearly all free Continuing Legal Education programs are delivered in one of three ways: Webinars/Telecons. These

4freeCLE - My free CLE Newsletter - Jan 23, 2012 issue ....

2012-01-24T16:03:00.000-08:00

Going out to over 100 subscribers, and cross-posted here on my private blog, something for the lawyers (...although anyone can watch the on-demand programs ... maybe you'll like them!) 4freeCLE: The Free CLE Newsletter!Jan 23, 2012 The Free CLE Revolution Continues!So far in 2012, we've published at least one webinar a week, and four or more

Italian Wedding Soup Win!

2012-01-22T21:46:00.000-08:00

The Champ! Kris won the soup contest at Big Al's tonight. The flavor picked randomly last week was "Italian Wedding Soup." We googled a bunch of recipes and settled on The Barefoot Contessa's as a starting point. The one thing we weren't sure of was its use of ground chicken, which tends to be low in flavor, and chicken sausage, which can introduce flavors we're not sure of. One thing we

"Obamacare Saved My Life" she said ...

2012-01-22T20:27:00.000-08:00

"... Even though I had paid into their policy since I was practically a kid, now when I needed it, it wasn't there: I was no longer earning enough to be covered. ...." This true story should melt a heart of stone: Jennifer Skye writes: "When I began working as an actor as a teenager, one of the perks was comprehensive insurance coverage through the Screen Actors Guild. Up until six years ago, I

Last Week's free CLE Newsletter...

2012-01-21T08:32:00.000-08:00

I'm a little behind on posting this stuff, so the webinars have passed. Blame the snow LOL! The newsletter itself went out to subscribers on the date shown, and I'll have the new one up here Monday-ish. BTW that "Driver Distraction" program is well worth listening to, even if you're uninterested in the law; it's full of useful things about driving that are new within the past 10 years. Avoiding

2012 Ecumenical Lenten Carbon Fast!

2012-01-19T08:46:00.000-08:00

I did this last year, and it was a fun challenge. I'll likely try again this year:From the New England Regional Environmental Ministries:Sign up now to participate in the 2012 Ecumenical Lenten Carbon Fast! Thank you for your participation in the 2011 Ecumentical Lenten Carbon Fast. We hope you found it engaging, informative and transformational. We're writing to invite you to renew your

The Seamstress And The Talking Frog

2012-01-19T08:37:00.000-08:00

Once upon a time, a seamstress was taking a break by a pond, and a frog hopped up in her lap. "Kiss me!" said the frog, "For I am a handsome prince under a spell. Your kiss will break the enchantment, and I shall marry you, and we shall live together in a beautiful palace with a hundred servants and storerooms full of jewels!" The seamstress popped him into her basket and started home. "Hey!"

Emotionally Intelligent Ways To Go #Green Without Getting The Blues

2012-01-18T21:56:00.000-08:00

If you're like me, you find some resistance in yourself or in others to adopting environmentally appropriate changes in your life. This resistance is understandable when the changes involve cost and inconvenience, but it can persist even when the changes have side benefits such as saving money. Why is this? Change can be easier when the problem is lack of knowledge or a lack of resources because

Going Black On A White-Out Day

2012-01-18T09:18:00.000-08:00

Today I am snowed in, thanks to the weather, and working more-or-less normally, thanks to the internet. Part of the internet is "going black" today, to remind us of the dangers of the current form of SOPA and PIPA, two proposals in Congress to screw-up the web in the name of protecting intellectual property rights. There are critics of these bills, and mostly they are people who know and

MLK Weekend Snow

2012-01-16T11:32:00.001-08:00

Snow days are Nature's way of telling us to slow down and think about stuff. Let us celebrate the great America Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. by staying the heck off the icy roads today!

Tebown'd ....

2012-01-15T14:04:00.000-08:00

"And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are: for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward." -- Matthew 6:5

Fear Vs Compassion?

2012-01-09T21:23:00.000-08:00

My friend Mudball posted at Wholly Hodgepodge: A new study finds that today’s college students are not as empathetic as college students of the 1980s and ’90s. University of Michigan researchers analyzed data on empathy collected from almost 14,000 college students over the last 30 years. “College kids today are about 40 percent lower in empathy than their counterparts of 20 or 30 years ago

Our Daybed

2012-01-04T20:37:00.000-08:00

Teh Awesome Daybed! For almost as long as I have known her, Kris has talked up the virtues of a daybed, sort of a couch upon which a lady may array herself, to enjoy a book, some bon-bons, and what-she-will. We knew that, sooner or later, we would find one. Sooner became now on Monday, when I was at the Thrift store. A man dropped of the pictured item, explaining that his grandmother had had it

Pilates Dog

2012-01-03T20:52:00.000-08:00

Jeannelle and a downward facing dog! Sundays we head in the direction of Ballard for Kris' Pilates class. Usually I drink coffee and get in an hour of writing; afterwards we may brunch with friends or head to the farmer's market. This Sunday, New Year's Day, class was scheduled and hour later and one of the participants brought her very well-mannered dog to observe. We had a good time playing

O, Dog Samaritan!

2012-01-02T21:46:00.000-08:00

Our friends for the moment... Pulling up to the Roanoke for a sandwich, Kris and I saw a black dog standing confused in the road. A man in a pickup truck was looking at him, but the two were clearly not related - the dog was shying away barking, and the man was not calling to it. I parked and Kris & I went over. The dog seemed lost; no collar, wet all over, and the truck man said he'd emerged

Lessons from the War of 1812

2012-01-02T10:22:00.001-08:00

I just finished C.S.Forester's The Age Of Fighting Sail which, while several decades old, offers an important lesson to serious students of military campaigns. In this account of the naval side of the War of 1812, Forester points out that British superiority at sea lead their frigate captains to offer battle so secure in the certainty of victory that they lost, five in a row, starting with

Prediction for 2012: Free CLE Changes the Legal Education Landscape

2011-12-31T19:20:00.000-08:00

Cross-posted from 4freeCLE - and representing one of my big projects for next year: 2011 was the year in which free, on-demand continuing legal education began to really take off, both as a business model for the sponsors and as a real choice for practitioners. I'll list a couple dozen below for the sake of those who need a few credits quick, but first let me make a few predictions:

Cat Drinking Preferences

2011-12-29T21:55:00.000-08:00

"I don't like it when it's on tap" We have three cats. We figure that so long as we have no more cats than humans, we aren't crazy cat people. It's important to set such a limit, because at heart, we just might be crazy cat people. Cats are not intelligent the same way humans are, but they seem to have feelings and personality and preferences. Michelle (the largest, colored like a milk cow)

Christmas Air Shark

2011-12-28T21:33:00.000-08:00

Houston, We Have A Problem It's been a busy holiday (?aren't they always?) but slowing down now. We had time for fun, in between running around, stocking books, decorating the house and what-all. Christmas Eve we drove up to my sister Kat's for a gift exchange and huge amount of food; Christmas Day we drove to Kris' sister Susie's for a gift exchange and moderate amounts of food. See the

10 Free CLE Opportunities!

2011-12-22T10:34:00.000-08:00

Another Newsletter on free Continuing Legal Education.... 4freeCLE: The Free CLE Newsletter!Dec 21, 2011 Recorded Online CreditMost of these events are approved for credit in several jurisdictions, or eligible for credit via reciprocity. If your state is not listed, getting credit may be as simple as

Kris' Awesome Tomato Soup

2011-12-20T20:18:00.000-08:00

What A Tomato! Kris wins this week's soup-off at Big Al's, using home-canned tomatos + fresh basil. The competition was tough with six awesome entries, but in the end, the Free Beer was hers! The full story: Big Al's is a little brewery a few blocks from here that includes a family-friendly tap room. One Sunday, the bartender brought in a crockpot of soup to share, which was much appreciated,

Thinking about Mark Pagel and Infinite Stupidity

2011-12-18T20:27:00.000-08:00

Innovations in Fitness Equipment A really smart guy is Mark Pagel ... "... a Fellow of the Royal Society and Professor of Evolutionary Biology; Head of the Evolution Laboratory at the University of Reading; Author Oxford Encyclopaedia of Evolution; co-author of The Comparative Method in Evolutionary Biology."... and he just wrote a great article entitled Infinite Stupidity over on Edge, where

2011-12-18T14:40:00.000-08:00

Today's email from Michael Moore says so much that makes sense that I'm just gonna reprint it ... you should read it in full: "A Man in Tunisia, a Movement on Wall Street, and the Soldier Who Ignited the Fuse ...a letter from Michael MooreSaturday, December 17th, 2011 Friends, It's Saturday night and I didn't want the day to end before I sent out this note to you. One year ago today (December

Another Issue of the free CLE Newsletter ...

2011-12-18T13:15:00.000-08:00

... on the plus side, my free CLE Newsletter has something like 100 subscribers (...in addition to over 700 Twitter followers, who get the material 140 characters at a time). On the minus side, the 1st item in the latest issue has now posted that it is full up. I don't know that I can take credit for that, but I may have done my part. Anyway, FWIW, here's the current issue: 4freeCLEDec 15,