http://www.carlhonore.com Just another WordPress weblog Wed, 08 Sep 2010 17:28:17 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Love how there are wooden rocking chairs sprinkled randomly round the departure lounge at the airport in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Makes waiting for the flight so much less grim. Gently rocking here now. Genius. http://www.carlhonore.com/?p=203 Today is the International Day of Slowness. Switch off your Blackberry. Turn off the TV. Go for a walk. Share a long, leisurely meal with friends or family. Read a story to your children. Take a nap in the middle of the day. Do some yoga. Spend the afternoon with a ... http://www.carlhonore.com/?p=202 Remember that old Woody Allen joke? "I took a speed reading course. We read War and Peace. It's about Russia." Sounds horribly familiar, doesn't it? These days we skim through thousands of words a day at high speed. But how much of that 'reading' do we actually take in? Or enjoy? The ... http://www.carlhonore.com/?p=201 What do hyperparents do when the kids finally leave home? They start micromanaging their dogs. Think canine sports tournaments, canine yoga and canine spas. A night club for dogs has even opened in New York. What next? Canine Kumon? http://www.carlhonore.com/?p=199 A big cheer for the new British PM David Cameron, who has kicked off his premiership by banning cellphones from cabinet meetings. Amen to that. Politicians make bad enough decisions as it is without being constantly distracted round the cabinet table by incoming emails and text messages. Turn off that Crackberry ... http://www.carlhonore.com/?p=198 Turns out fast food creates mindless hurry even when you don't eat it. Research suggests that simply seeing an image of the the Golden Arches of McDonald's or picturing a Big Mac is enough to switch us into road-runner mode. I just hope this doesn't apply to conveyor-belt sushi... Read more here. http://www.carlhonore.com/?p=197 For all those Canadians checking in having seen the CBC documentary, the Globe and Mail recently wrote this about Under Pressure: "A look at the mismanagement of the contemporary child: overprotected, overindulged, over-stimulated. An indispensable, anecdotal, comnmonsensical guide to why our kids are depressed, lazy and fat, and what we can ... http://www.carlhonore.com/?p=192 Or even better: let's talk about Slow Sex. On Friday, January 15th, I will be doing just that in a public lecture in San Francisco. The topic is all things Slow, with a special emphasis on sex. If you're in town, come along and join the conversation. Don't be shy. There won't ... http://www.carlhonore.com/?p=188 Today at 3pm EST in the US, I'll be doing a live webcam chat with Arianna Huffington about the Slow revolution. Log in, ask questions, disagree, make suggestions, laugh at the funny side of fast and slow. See you there! Just click http://tiny.cc/XjrSp.... http://www.carlhonore.com/?p=187 My latest blog at Huffington Post is on Slow Food, Slow Cooking and Slow Eating. Bon appétit! http://www.carlhonore.com/?p=186