Going Alone

I’m caught up and even ahead at work, which is dangerous as it’s tempting now to coast and be less productive than my employer deserves ...

Winter’s here. The beach is deserted. It feels good running down the sand towards the waves. A little voice inside yelling, stop!! But ...

My adult sense knows that Monday won’t last more than today, and that I can push into it with the same quiet resolve I’ve used with...

Parker and I tackled some interesting ontological questions during our hike yesterday, including death. However, neither of us were...

Here’s the whole video of my day of adventure yesterday with my amazing nephew, Parker Bell. Such fun! Such thoughts! From desert ghost...

I have not had an adventure like yesterday’s in a long time. My nephew Parker and I filled the day with living. Hard, earnest living...

I missed doing this yesterday. Work kept me late. I actually left the house after dark to go for a swim anyway, Yumiko commenting “you...

Recovering my balance a little today, though I’m still wobbly from this tough week. It’s interesting how dependent my mind is upon the...

Wow! That was a rough night for both Yumiko and me. Problems at work ambushed us both and we couldn’t sleep. Laying there in bed...

I’ve lost my glasses and can barely read what i write, so I’d better make it short. Br safe… But not too safe. #GoingAlone #TheGoodLife...

Making good use of this day off, I’ve completed my first Walking in Japan video in almost ten years. This clip utilizes my old formatting...

“My life is done.” What a curious thing to say at the start of the day. It’s not even 5:30 AM, yet that’s what I said. And I meant it....

When I dove into the sea just now I banged into something fishy. Not a shark of course, but a fish, maybe a stingray. I was startled, ...

Not as productive yesterday as I’d like. I hate that. It really, truly bothers me not to complete a work day driven hard and...

Teeth chattering today. It feels like winter now. There’s no one at the beach. This feels like a challenge, but it’s not. It’s rehearsal...

I came up with a way to punctuate the day with completion, a way to mark each day as done through a single activity rich in decided...

I slept in this morning and my schedule is off. I’m half an hour behind on everything I normally do, and this is more than a little...

Settling in now. Life routine has reconfigured and is becoming set, locked in in a way. It’s that way on vacation too, after a few days....

I kinda blew it last night. I spoiled the fun a little at Emily’s twenty-second birthday party—happy birthday, sweetie!—after wearing...

My thoughts were on process today: how to best organize my days and my activities to make good use of my remaining good years. Hopefully,...