Tag: social norms

• What It Means to Show Up

  

  January 5th, 2015

  It means different things to different people to “show up.” One doesn’t need to look hard to find the disparities. The mother “playing with her kids” while she’s frantically typing out emails on her phone. The father who’s at the soccer game but can’t remove the phone from his ear. The friend who makes it to your…

• On Dog Poop, Again

  January 15th, 2008

  memespring About seven months ago–wow, has it really been that long?–I instructed: So next time you’re walking your dog, and someone asks you if you’re going to pick that up, do the right thing. Say yes and walk away. Leave the excrement where it falls. And even when I wrote that, I wasn’t nearly so…