Brains Can be Nutty
Michele Olender
June 26, 2020
We tend to think of the brain as a single entity, but there are a number of structures and one of the more mischievous of
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Time Out
Michele Olender
June 24, 2020
Time and lack of time come up ALL the time in virtually every conversation. It’s time.Not the right time.Is it time?Time is money.Time is just
Discomfort Zone
Michele Olender
June 23, 2020
Want more success?You probably need to double or triple your rate of failure. Failure is one of those emotions most of us have learned to
Won’t Hurt A Bit…
Michele Olender
June 22, 2020
This won’t hurt a bit. We’ve heard it said and we’ve probably said it too – “This won’t hurt a bit.” And the voice in
So, it’s like this
Michele Olender
June 21, 2020
This blog post has taken me 3 days – roughly 7 hours all told. Pages and pages of going nowhere. Some days the best I
Ugly Babies
Michele Olender
June 18, 2020
So yesterday we discussed “murdering our darlings.”Today? Ugly babies. I am a newly minted grandmother of one exquisitely handsome grandson (his mother may be reading
Murder Your Darlings
Michele Olender
June 17, 2020
Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, writer and lecturer at Cambridge University on the subject of language and literature appears to have been the source of the aphorism,
Chaos: like it’s a bad thing…
Michele Olender
June 17, 2020
Monday morning I settled in to do some (overdue) focused work at our weekend house. Within minutes, the painters showed up to to repair the
IF YOU GIVE A YAK A SHAVE
Michele Olender
June 12, 2020
Somewhere in the intersectional world of Ren & Stimpy* and computer coding a term emerged in the 1990’s called Yak Shaving. Coined by an MIT
