Swart Donkey

Conversation is not the same as the written word.  When you read a transcript of a lively discussion, it often looks as if we’ve forgotten h...

 I use social media as a catalyst for real-world interaction . I’ve been writing a blog since 2006 called Swart Donkey . That name came fr...

I was 31 in 2011. It was a watershed year for me in terms of assessing what was important. I dived into a “Project Mojo” to get myself back ...

There’s a big difference between embodied knowledge and surface-level learning.  Think about how we used to find our way home. You’d either ...

The more you can have a focus on something bigger than yourself, it allows you to stop the wrestle of "Am I good enough?". I had a...

The goal of the teacher in my very first yoga class was for us to walk out feeling “introduced to relaxation”. I was 29 years old and was in...

The easiest problems to tackle are the ones that focus on things that you can count. If you can count something, it is easier to control. ST...

We need a process to develop the necessary skills and knowledge. That is getting easier. There are a lot of Massively Open Online Courses (M...