the Justin Owings page

Welcome to the Justin Owings page

[ about ]

This is the personal website of Justin N. Owings of Atlanta, Georgia. I am a business owner, blogger, health-enthusiast, husband, and father. If you're new here, the site content can be divided into four blogs — Writing, Linked Down, Workouts, and Reading. You can find all the latest content here. This page serves to summarize all recent activity on the site and elsewhere (such as on Google Reader). To the right are listed snippets from the five most recent posts to all blogs, excluding my workouts.

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Latest posts

Meatza! Meatza! — How to make the best meatza (a pizza with a beef crust) using my late Italian grandfather's meatball recipe. Very tasty!

Doctors make bad business people — There are good reasons doctors make for bad business people (and entrepreneurs). The healthcare system is set up where the customer is an insurance company (1) and (2) practicing medicine has turned into a matter of treating symptoms rather than proactive care. In other words, the doctors expect *you* to call them when you have a problem because on the front-end (the preventative end) they largely have nothing to offer.

Collapse and Renewal — That is the time when change is most uncertain. We are living in it now. In this year we have simultaneously faced the sudden appearance of now reinforcing flips - sudden increases in the price of oil, increases in the costs of food, a financial collapse and the start of a recession, the retreat of Arctic ice sheets with climate warming, and accelerating loss of biodiversity. That is a lot to swallow and it reflects a process of human development and expansion since WWII.

The Game-Changer — I've been trying to come up with an easy way to explain to others what being a new parent is like. It's an emotional roller coaster. Living with a nooborn is like setting a kitchen timer on a two to three hour schedule that never stops resetting. Change a diaper, feed, comfort, put baby to sleep, knock a few things out around the house, rinse, repeat. It does not stop.

Aviana a.k.a. "Project Aminowings" a Success — My daughter Aviana entered the world Monday night. She was a smidge under eight pounds, and (no bias I promise) she is beautiful. She is also amazingly intelligent, wanting to stay up all night in an effort to elucidate the experience of dreaming in the womb. Unfortunately, this means that between the hours of midnight and five of six in the morning, she is doing anything but dreaming!

Writings and in-depth commentary are listed here. For one-off thoughts regarding worthwhile finds around the web, see Linked Down.

Writing

Linked Down

I chronicle and review books I've been Reading [ library ] as well as keep a log of Workouts.

Workouts

Reading

I also run a Vibram FiveFingers Fan Site called "birthday shoes." It's where I've been doing most of my blogging lately.

Birthday Shoes

Follow me on twitter — my account is JustinNO. I tweet about what I'm up to, cooking, blogging and other life happenstance.

Twitter

I keep up with blogs via Google Reader. The more interesting stuff gets shared here. I also share funny or informative videos I find on YouTube. If you need a break offsite, check out things I liked at reddit.

Google Reader

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YouTubin'

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