Going Alone

Dr. Johnson’s take on the old adage of being careful about what we ask for. #SamuelJohnson#DrJohnson#Rambler The Good Life Meditation is...

Feeling better today. Resting yesterday helped. There was good, deep diving with the book I’m reading; alone in the sunshine with my dog,...

Another bad day. I just can’t seem to get well. That’s alright. My weekend chores and shopping are done. My socializing’s done too. A...

It’s 7:00 AM and time for another live book reading from Going Alone. Today, I’ll read the short chapter titled The Writing Bridge, which...

I overextended myself yesterday and discovered my reach fell short of my intent. Such a disappointment. I let someone down in the process...

Episode 137 of my podcast series Stoic Poetry deals with a category of principles titled Engagement, and explores how these five...

I worked a fifteen-hour day yesterday, and I really feel it. Such days were much easier once, when I was younger, and stamina was a match...

I went in to the office yesterday. It was really good. After the big morning meeting I went to work at my old desk for the rest of the...

I lost it a little bit at work yesterday. It was nothing bad, I didn’t say or do anything inappropriate or untoward; in fact what I did...

Yumiko and I walked the dogs on the beach together yesterday after work. It was a good stroll after a hard working day for us both. We...

I was thinking today how this prolonged illness is making me fall behind in the parade. Not yet. Not really. Though I feel it’s happening...

The Good Life Meditation is my daily recitation and reminder of personal objectives and principles used in pursuit of a purposeful life...

I drove over a hundred miles yesterday and only barely fell asleep once, at a traffic light, less than a mile from home. I didn’t...

Here’s a tiny little place that we looked at in Japan. By nearly all standards this place is too old and small and way too full of...

Yumiko and I have so far failed in our efforts to contact the owner of the one house in Japan which we’d hoped to buy. But we’ll keep...

Suddenly asleep… That’s what happens now when I sit in this chair. It happened just now, after recording this video and with my thumb...

There’s a very old man where I live now. I see him like a chimp sees the humans walking by its cage. The old man limps past my chimp cage...

Yumiko joined me at the beach yesterday. It was a cold and blustery evening, and we walked together from Seventeenth Street to lifeguard...

That was a challenging weekend. The body keeps telling me it’s done, despite my best efforts to lure it safely back to good health with...

Samuel Johnson reflects on the condition and state of opportunity and choice for women in mid-18th century England. Rambler 39 - The...