The Podunks are traveling to Mexico and when I’m flying, I like to read something more sophisticated than our local newspaper, or as Iron Chef refers to it — the weekly disappointment. I picked up a copy of the Harvard Business Review to broaden my horizons. The smarty pants at the Harvard Business Review taught […]
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Choosing a title for this post made me nervous, but I can’t afford a headline writer so there we go. If you found this post doing an internet search you shouldn’t have been doing, your bad. I’m writing about Butte, Montana. The thing is, Iron Chef and I travel to Butte on a fairly regular basis […]
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Some of you are worried that I don’t write enough. And to be clear, it’s not that you are clamoring for more; it’s that you think I’m lazy. The work of a writer — the real behind the scenes work — is often unseen and unappreciated. The reader is looking for product, not process… and […]
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Thanks to those gentle readers who expressed concern about my last post. Yes, Podunk’s instincts were spot on and my sidekick Lucy and I had accidentally enrolled in professional development at a remote summer camp-like setting on an island where only herbal tea was served. Oh, they tried to mask this oversight with really delicious […]
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My sidekick Lucy and I were invited to a leadership class on Cortes Island in British Columbia (Canada). At first glance, this is an incredible opportunity. But now that we’re en route, it occurs to us that we may be being sent to rehab. Maybe it’s my own guilty conscience or maybe the subtle reference […]
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Her Royal Highness and I were in relatively nearby Sun Valley recently. “I feel like Podunk could be as cool as Sun Valley if we had, like, lots of money,” she observed. I told her I thought so too. And that if we had, like, lots of money, I would have better hair.
AT&T wrote me a letter recently. The letter informed me that my cell phone was so old their new cell phone towers would no longer support my telephone-type activities. But, they let me down easy. I could get a new, cell phone tower supported device, for nada. I hate spending money on phones. We established […]
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Two of my four followers have commented to me, privately, “So now you do neither housework nor your blog?” Ouch. There’s no hiding the fact that I suffer from occasional but acute bouts of writer’s block, and I have an aversion to dusting. But my old pal Jackie the Journalist has offered to help crush the […]
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The absolute best thing about living in Podunk is our proximity to wilderness whitewater. The Podunks recently joined up with my Sidekick Lucy’s family for a 5-day adventure. I like a lot of things about being on the Main Salmon River — time with friends and family, the rapids, the food, the scenery, the crazy […]
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We’ve lived in Podunk for more than 12 years now. I’m starting to see some of the quirky side effects of that tenure on my behavior. I’m almost certain that if I lived in civilization, as defined by having at least two grocery stories, I would not feel compelled to deface shopping carts, for example. […]
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Podunk Meets Paradise 