Going Alone

Yesterday, I was swimming alone after work out past the breakers, when I suddenly heard a voice next to me say “please come back to...

I was distracted by Juan yesterday, by his excellence and professionalism, and his self-control and his poise. Juan meets others where...

Happy Thanksgiving Day to my fellow Americans and USA residents. I hope that everyone has much to be thankful for. For me, I’m grateful...

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...

There is an inward architecture which we create through the fact and consequence of our decisions and actions, which become the...

What effort is involved in holding a position of faith? The work is in the restraint needed to protect our belief from doubt. We strive...

I awoke today to headlines of war, and gossip, and scandal, and the rise of stocks and advertisements for soap, and a 30% chance of rain...

Whenever I strive, I always fall short. For the fact of striving makes me miss the mark. It would be better to become educated, without...

As a young man, my ideas resembled the ideas of others, and my writing was an imperfect transcription of what I'd learned. My time then...

Before I was alive I'm pretty sure I simply did not exist. Oh sure, the stuff of which I am made was around, and the energy which courses...