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Dining Reviews Travel

Lake Champlain Chocolates (Burlington, VT)

You can’t possibly visit Burlington, Vermont, without strolling Church Street, and you can’t possibly stroll down Church Street without at least sticking your head in the door of Lake Champlain Chocolates. Just inside the door, the jolly...

January 18, 2015

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Gear Reviews

Review – Adonit Jot Script Evernote Edition Fine Point Stylus

I’ve bought many products I love. I’ve bought products I like. I’ve bought a few products I didn’t like. Only very rarely does a product come along that makes me angry, leaving me feeling abused, taken advantage of, and far...

November 23, 2014

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Reviews Services

Focus and Get More Done with Focus@Will

What if you could focus on your work — entering that elusive “flow state” where great work gets done more quickly — whenever you needed to? That’s the seductive promise made by the folks at Focus@Will, a music service...

October 31, 2014

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Reviews Services

Transporter Sync Personal Cloud is not Your New Dropbox

When Dropbox started adding pro-torture, anti-privacy war criminals to their Board of Directors, I started looking for an alternative online storage and syncing solution. (I found it, by the way. It’s Bitcasa, which offers a full...

May 8, 2014

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Books Reviews Spirituality

Book Review: Deep Meditation by Yogani

I’ve been meditating now twice day for six consecutive days. So, you know … I’m an expert. I kid, I kid. But I can report that, in just six days of twice-daily meditation, I’m already seeing positive results. I’m using...

January 19, 2014

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Books Reviews Spirituality

Book Review — David Lynch’s Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity

“If you want to catch little fish, you can stay in the shallow water. But if you want to catch the big fish, you’ve got to go deeper.” — David Lynch Catching the Big Fish is a short, readable book on the connection between...

January 13, 2014

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Books Reviews

Book Review: No B.S. Time Management for Entrepreneurs

Dan S. Kennedy understands that time management isn’t really about managing the passage of seconds and minutes; instead, he observes, “if you can’t control your thoughts and manage your mind, you can’t control or...

January 9, 2014

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Books Reviews

Book Review: The Silent Stars Go By

Being a fan of the BBC series Doctor Who, I wondered whether I might enjoy some of the “expanded adventures” offered in the form of short novels. Given that it was Christmas and I was already mourning Matt Smith’s retirement as The...

January 5, 2014

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Gear Reviews

iPad Owners: Your Dream Keyboard is Here

I’m passionate about the iPad as a powerful, portable creative tool. Since it’s arrival, both my iMac and my MacBook Air have languished in various corners of our house, neglected and all but forgotten. As someone who writes for a...

May 5, 2012

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