I’m a bit of a broken record when it comes to balance. I think about it a lot, talk about it often, and find myself looking for it everywhere. Maybe it’s part of getting older, but I’m less likely to find myself wandering to extremes these days and more at home looking for a place …
Given half a chance, I’ll overthink anything. Take a half hour to pick out a movie? Sure. Spend weeks mulling whether or not I should get a new pair of boots? Yup. Go back and forth about whether or not I should spend money on a new sweater and what type of sweater to get? …
Well, this will make an interesting group psychological case study some day. I’ve had this thought from time to time over the last nine months whenever normal bumps up against necessity. Like remote learning. Something that used to be extraordinarily rare become commonplace overnight. Not just in one country or a specific region – it …
Chuck Yeager is the reason I fell in love with reading biographies. I read my paperback copy of his autobiography, Yeager, so many times that it literally fell apart some time around high school. In spite of that, I kept it around on my book shelf and it survived at least six moves before finally …
Not to get too deep into my grumpy old man schtick, but there are times when I’m left scratching my head when it comes to the world. There’s even a temptation to succumb to feeling dumb or out of touch because I don’t quite understand some of the things happening as we all crash forward …
“Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are the dead.” Aldous Huxley A lot of what humans do each day is a striving for consistency. For example, if you’re building things, you want them to be consistently good so that you’ll be able to sell them and continue to …
Thinking of what to post this morning, I started to wonder what was on my mind a decade ago. Back into the digital filing structure for the folder marker “2010” and there was a wealth of documents staring me down. This is always a terrifying moment. After digging through a few, this one seemed to …
Let me introduce you to a very important pile of clothing. Not because the clothes themselves are special (although I am partial to that Lettuce t-shirt), but what they represent. I leave a similar pile of clothes in my bathroom almost every night before going to bed. Work out clothes on the top, and what …
Was tipped to a new poet that I’m looking forward to reading a whole lot more from, Nicole Sealey (@Nic_Sealey). Here’s something to think about… The First Person Who Will Live to Be One Hundred and Fifty Years Old Has Already Been Born [For Petra] Scientists say the average human life gets three months longer …
I know it’s hard to believe, but reading the news these days can be a bit of a downer. It seems the more information I take in, the more fatalistic I become. It’s an easy time to be jaded and disgusted. But then again, it’s also a good time to work at fending those off …