When we are able to be a part of those conversations with words that matter, that are chosen and crafted and used correctly, we can work to change the nature and direction of the discussion. Or contribute in a meaningful and impactful way....

As phases go ‘brain dump’ is vaguely scatological and just plain vague. The advice about what to do with your brain dump is often just as vague, though usually with the equally vague promise of it being useful and helping you do more things and do better and doing...

Poor and groping for meaning, my awful handwriting etched into the wide-ruled pages of spirals that dug into my wrist (being left-handed can be a literal pain) in giant letters that swam around the lines and never quite managed to space out the way they should....

I’m Alan. Some of you know me as The Notebook Wizard. I spend most of my time teaching life skills, editing, writing and playing a hero in Star Wars The Old Republic Online with my friends. I have two great dogs, Princess Elsa Von Barkington and Prince Caspian Bawoooooo....