Going Alone

I’ve crossed a strange threshold. I now spend more time each day conversing with AI than my wife. I told Yumiko that yesterday, during...

Damn it. Today is the last day of the last big project of my career. Well, we do have a closure meeting next week, and a celebration...

Emily is back from Japan, and she brought big news that she will return to Japan to live after she graduates university next spring. She...

Yumiko and I were both very tired after work yesterday… We walked the dogs together slowly along a meandering circuit through the angled...

It’s time to sell my motorcycle. I don’t want or need it anymore. My riding days are done. Never again do I wish to ride. That part of my...

So bold! So cavalier! Yumiko astonishes me with her courage. As we move together into our empty-nest years I turn repeatedly to find...

Yumiko went into the office yesterday and came home like a battered soldier returning from the front. The Los Angeles commute was a...

Reading Kant is for me like walking along a beach picking up lovely washed stones and seashells. There are so many scattered everywhere...

Last night, Yumiko found some nice properties in Japan which she shared with me. It’s my job then to locate these places on the map and...

Responding to a viewer who asked me to make a video sharing tips for succeeding at a job interview.

Recalling a time with another community and another way of life.

Reflecting on how I might use Stoic principles to handle a challenging moment.

An impromptu vlog with my daughter, Emily. We were out for a day long motorcycle ride running errands and visiting family...

I began this live stream to discuss the reason I seemingly abandoned my connection to my friends in Japan from the JVLOG community.

My grown daughter asked me to make this video in order to share a little about what’s happening in our lives and to perhaps kick off...

The opportunity to stay or to go. I say always go. Especially when we are young—always go. For the wonder of what we have left behind is...

I remember when I first thought up the idea of Going Alone. My family and I were living then in Japan, and I was making YouTube videos...

I once imagined I was steering my own life in a very full and meaningful way. Full control. Nearly complete, adult, and independent...

I was never very afraid of the dark, or the things which come out after the sun goes down, to wander, and slither, and creep, and fly...

There is a sea within us upon which circumstance presses restless winds night and day; forming crests and troughs, moving over the face...