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On idleness and productivity

New Years Refusals

The problem with that guy I was supposed to like

that guy you were supposed to like

Hiding in the basement

Upon Arrival

Unintended gifts

remarkably foolish wishlist

dispatch from the mall on Christmas eve

More daylight

Tough love might help me meditate

How I earned, lost and regained my pilots license

Doomscrolling

Celebratory pre Festivus post

Emotions as states of matter

When I didn't want to feel it

Moron Weaponized Flatulence

My holiday shopping secret

Embarrassment, shame and guilt

Take a moment to notice

so, it depends on the context

Champagne and shame

How shame works

Understanding shame

Moron Shame

Shame = killer of creativity

On Territorial Kooks

Everything is getting cold

Just get started

What happened to my underpants?

moron qualifications and participation

On qualifications and participation

Moron Goals

kinetic energy and setting goals

Participation and qualification

Delayed participation due to qualification

What happens after you fail?

You're a failure

Eleven thousand three hundred and five

Something concerte?

Bristol Board Projects

Cutting wood or sharpening knives

Bags of leaves

The steam cleaner

Consider asking

The tightwire routine

some notes from the field

Inspired procrastination

How to avoid finishing your book

Who gets stuck with the dishes?

This time of year

A woodpile of stories

On writers block

Coaching without drills

Compassion through imitation

Investing in myself

The career trajectory of a clown

Compassion for the constipated

How Dad Jokes Are Born

The Mask of pretending to be Non Judgemental

The Willow Tree

Second hand masks

Trick or Treat, the story of an impostor in theatre school

The Halloween Party

Exposed in the autumn

Model ships and trains - a riff on scale

The life of a golf ball

This flickering light.

The kitten is on the counter

When our daughter was born

The Wisdom of Don Schlitz

The kitten is up the tree

One of those people

More on identity

What's in a name?

On my wipeout

The Invisible Scapegoat

Murder in process

On becoming obsolete

Getting started after a break

Ride your bike

Deception and mental health part two

Deception and mental health

The canary in the coal mine

Jumping the fence

Goals and the golden rope

Cold showers and surfing

Resistance as a launch ramp to success

When the song lyrics don't fit anymore

Planning on imprefection

You are not a rational actor (why I don’t work with children)

When to give up?

It doesn't sound right

Creativity is the framework

Ma Francais est terrible

Roots and rocks and other threats

Which wave do you choose?

a bit on why

parking lots of despair

Getting started

These are the breaks

The unknown ocean

Working while on hold

Moving wood

Are you willing to learn to work for assholes?

Waiting to be picked

Avoiding career congestion

What size is your surfboard

Who ate the butter?

Belling the cat

Looking for easy street?

more on leftovers and outcasts

leftovers

underestimated

care for automatic watches

marinating ideas

learning to walk

A post about Shannan

the ocean isn't safe

median survival time thirty six months

another shred of evidence

evidence that things are getting better

another post about josh

what is cool

on returning home

reflections on a summer holiday

i am hans

Downtown Abby and Rosetta Stone

It's here somewhere

the rats and squirrels of leadership

when it feels urgent

food processers for crows

rats, squirrels & the courage of convictions

The horizon of possibilities

the horses have fled

In response to yesterday...

yesterday was spicy

for you

how much farther papa smurf

Flip a coin

somewhere, out there

Swinging through acrophobia

three states of matter

when you sound like you

Six months in

How to cook a kitten

standing in a doorway

industrial parks

STOP! OR I'LL SAY STOP AGAIN!

lines on a page

the kitten in the ceiling

Bigfoot sometimes gets confused with sasquatch

A blanket on the shore

on dishwasher spacial dynamics

our circular fetishes

do not trim your nose hair

Problematic words and phrases

perfecting the peach tree

what happens when

That critical moment

pulling off bandages

running in flip-flops

my filing system

Let's make those birds now

A quick thank you

Laughter and Resilience Part 2b

I'm worried about my cat

Setting a watch

Laughter and Resilience Part 2a

Letting your clover grow

Letting your clover grow

The sound of stuckness

laughter and resilience part 1

How to cook a kitten

Is this anything?

obituaries or obitrees

A moment of silence

laughing at mistakes

An in person event - looking for your thoughts

More on mistakes

How to Cook a Kitten

The wrong board?

Let's eat this moment

What to do

Grind it out or walk away

the shortcut to relaxation

When things heat up

How to cook a kitten

MIND POWER!

Lost items

The Shoemaker (without elves!)

So Soff

REBOUNDS ABOUND!

After the mistake

How to cook a kitten

Burning buildings

Educational Industrial Complex

Ouch, that hurts

Asset or liability?

What's it for?

The Believe You Can

How to cook a kitten

What's your driving style?

Boundaries vs limits

The Benches of destiny

Grind it. Grind it clean

When your dogs eat June Bugs

Selling stuff part 2

How to cook a kitten

don't just do something, stand there

I'm getting rid of it!

they can tell that you're faking

Rosetta Stone and Kidney Beans

hidden motors

life backstage

How to cook a kitten

shake the globe!

Collaboration Foolsletter

Preverbal data collection

paving stones on the road to hell

The crow and the jug of water

Classic Carlo

How to cook a kitten

Catastrophizing our way to liberty

oh my change is hard

on kissing frogs

The little red hen

on mental health and Victorian Melodrama

Weirdo

How to cook a kitten

shallow power

On the occasion of the 99th Foolsletter

a brief history of mobile communications

The grocery store of life

In the style of a dog

Too Much

Part the Neweth

Sense of Humour

Who's afraid of the big bad wolf?

What do you want?

Oh Yeah!

Ian Mitchell Onederful

This is a Remarkably Foolish Skill

How to cook a kitten

A defining action of the remarkably foolish

You are what you do

An ode to imperfection

I left it behind

Three profanities

Little Red Solo Cup

How to cook a kitten

Lurking from your lurkem

Upon entering a grocery store

On the importance of spontaneous, outrageous, absurd, meaningless, ridiculous, fun.

The incompetent executive

Our sense of play

Least rational, most absurd

How to cook a kitten

The opposite of depression

Weekend weirdness

What type of person are you?

Mannequin Attack

Horses and Donkeys

How to Cook a Kitten

The Purpose of a Pet

Moving the woodpile

Welcome to the Weekend

Two types of people

Two Types of People

Pickin' Zitz

Joe Kerr and Joe King

How to cook a kitten

Wooden Block Parenting

Speaking of carrots

Moving carrots

Happy New Year

The secret ingredient

Part the seventh

My clown shoes are stolen

On the origin of the universe

On the origins of excellence

The Relative Merritts of Sportsmanship in Middle School Dodge Ball

Municipal Utility Customer Service

The Remarkable Foolish Postcard Club

Part the sixth

do ya feel it? in the north it is spring...

How to be terrible

Oh, you can't do it yet?

I was hungry

Oh what foolishness

Well that was foolish

On directions

Part the 5th

Disgorge and re-gorge

Where has your soul found a home?

It was mediocre

Wiggle your fingers

Where food comes from

On belief

How to cook a kitten

Uncle Bobby and the identity crisis

Uncle Bobby and the Mayor of Dartmouth

Inspiration vs effort

how to tie your skates

One way back

On the tradition of feces in personal growth / therapy

How to cook a kitten part 3

My Nanny's Teeth

That joke had a

Where eye shadow comes from

The Best Joke Ever

I'll send you some clown shoes

Part 2: How to cook a kitten

The Fort

Remarkably Foolish Band Names

My Granddad's Rolex

Here comes the weekend

Poker with a joker

reMarkable tools for remarkable fools

how to cook a kitten

How I didn't end up being a member of the blue man group

Remarkably Foolish Domain Names

Call for submissions and The Battle of Hastings 1067

In the mood for love

In a previous life

Staged Authenticity

Fantastic Spaces

Long stare and squint

Onederful Thing

Onederful Thing

Welcome to the Remarkable Foolsletter

It has to happen

On the importance of spontaneous, outrageous, absurd, meaningless, ridiculous, fun.

Weird-o

I'll have to start somewhere