Research continues in anticipation of the 2012 Craft Brewery Pilgrimage! Please let me know if you would like to recommend potential research locations or, even better, if there are places you would like to participate in this work with me. Significant research can always benefit from more data and peer review. It can be a challenge […]
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Have you ever been in a relationship that has become unhealthy? One in which you struggle to find the difference between an intimare connection and an addiction? Your relationship is exciting and attractive; it motivates you to live life more fully, and even keeps you up at night.You find it challenging to get up and
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As Americans prepare to commemorate Thanksgiving Day tomorrow, it is important to reflect on all that has changed since that first Thanksgiving in Plymouth, and all that has remained the same. Much is different, and many features have been added to what we consider typical of Thanksgiving today. There were no televised parades or football,
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November is, in many ways, a very contemplative month. It begins in the wake of costumes and frivolity; false selves on display for all to see. The days grow colder and darker, almost as if the month is turning inward. Candles and treats give way to the early evenings of standard time. Like contemplation, November
My research in preparation for the 2012 Craft Brewery Pilgrimage continues. I am a committed and dedicated researcher. I intend to leave no Stone untasted, and to check and recheck my results as many times as necessary to ensure that the best craft breweries in Southern California are included on our itinerary. It is a
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I have posted about my ongoing research to find the best craft breweries in Southern California to visit on next year’s Craft Brewery Pilgrimage. Even before the culmination of this year’s pilgrimage last month, I was already beginning to think of the future. Though I have not yet made any final decisions, I wanted to
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A few months ago, in the midst of the first Craft Brewery Pilgrimage, I posted an description of how the pilgrimage, and an incredibly influential blog, were bringing attention to craft brewing in Southern California. The story did not end there. Not only have mainstream media understanding our community in new ways; the marketplace has
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Is it possible to be on Twitter and to be contemplative at the same time? That was one of my main concerns about Twitter before I started. Before that, Twitter seemed like the opposite of contemplation: writing without thinking, words without reflection. It is not unusual for some of the contemplative people I know to
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I started running again a couple of months ago. Last week, I had the most dramatic day I have ever had as a runner. I started late, and followed my usual route. I was more than half way, headed back, when I fell. I do not really remember falling; I remember running, taking a
My Craft Brewery Pilgrimage for this year culminated on October 1 at Stone Brewing Company in Escondido. That does not mean, though, that I have had an entire month without anything to do. Far from it. We are crafting a movement; I have already begun the arduous task of researching stops for next year’s
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