1. Having to put your 14 year old dog to sleep sucks. It sucks bad.

2. I believe that being human matters.

3. Let’s not do anything this Friday.

4. Anne Lamott and I are not the same.

5. “The Kurds made me long for more meaningful community, for tighter connection to heritage and for a life built upon the bonds of family honor.”

–Stephen Mansfield, The Miracle Of The Kurds

1. Buckets of cash and zero debt is business flexibility.

2. We dressed awful when we were young, didn’t we.

3. Content, content, content.

4. Coming up with new ideas is difficult. It helps to have a plan.

5. “Stay in one place long enough, or return to the same place often enough, and some interesting ironies are likely to accumulate.”

–Larry McMurtry, Walter Benjamin At The Dairy Queen