m2h blogs by Marcia Hansen

Kathryn Petro, over at A Mindful Life, has posted a few excerpts from The Geek Handbook. What a hoot!
The Advantages Of Living With A Geek (If You Know What To Value)
Because I Live With and Love One
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Have you seen the new iMac? Wow!

New War on Emissions
See the encouraging article above in the CS Monitor. California is planning to create and enforce tougher laws on greenhouse gas emissions from cars. NY says that it will follow CA. Yeah! Go team!!!
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Yahoo! News – Southern Baptists Quit World Alliance
I just don’t understand close-minded thinking. How any one denomination can presume to know the RIGHT path and actively work against inclusiveness is beyond me.
Hmm…I guess they’d call my liberal attitude close-minded. I just don’t consider it a liberal point of view — it seems normal [...]

Mattel gearing up to launch Barbie clothing line in 2004 – Jun. 14, 2004
Oh Puleaze. This is all we need.
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Fiona Haley writes A Day in the Life of Work: Wave Runner article in Fast Company. She tells how she gave up her job as an attorney to follow her dream of piloting ships.
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The really smart people, like these, need to talk about what’s happening on our planet and make some recommendations. Then we need to listen and get our political representatives to listen and make appropriate policy changes.
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There is an interesting article at Creative Latitude: Multiple Income Streams: Avoiding Starving Artist Syndrome by Angela Booth. In the article, Booth identifies ways that creative professionals can generate additional income. One of her key points is creating passive income. The story of Creative Lattitude is also interesting. Check it [...]

I need to share this information with N and S. I think the hollistic approach advised by Debbie Eisenstadt Mandel would be interesting to both of them. Mandel wrote Turn On Your Inner Light: Fitness for Body, Mind and Soul.
She hosts a radio program, leads workshops, and is a personal trainer. [...]

From the Economist,Striking a healthy workplace balance: How to ‘get a life’ while staying productive.
But most important of all is the realization that life and work are not a zero-sum game: an hour gained for yourself is not an hour lost from your business. Indeed, a healthy work-life balance not only makes for a [...]