Going Alone

I met an enormous stingray yesterday, at least three times bigger than usual. I was down at the bottom of the sea, diving under a big...

A powerful day yesterday. At dawn, I went to the beach with my flippers and jumped headlong into the sea. The waves were large, and I...

Another semester of Emily’s school is paid for. One more to go, and then we’re done! We didn’t save enough for her college when she was...

It was 116 degrees at Siberia ghost town yesterday. A few years back, and I’d have felt a longing to be out there. No more... I don’t...

There’s an interesting sense of quiet that’s descending upon my life. Nothing much has changed. The fray at work continues—though it’s...

I’m sleeping every night now, straight through, from the moment I rest my head on my pillow at 9:00 PM until the alarm sounds at 4:00...

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...

Our daughter is over the Aleutian islands now. She just purchased the Airplane WIFI, as I saw the credit card charge flash by on my...

Emily’s childhood is really done. It’s taken me a bit for that fact to settle in. But, with university nearly over and her life path...

My life’s first objective is to be always ready to die. It’s what I strive for daily. To live and be in such a way as to be prepared to...

I took the day off work to learn how to retire. The place where I work offers classes for those at the end of their careers, in order to...

Six months. That’s how long Yumiko and I will be apart. Yumiko will have just half a year to establish our new life in Japan before I...

I’ve discovered a funny new superpower at work, a temporary, ephemeral force which has only recently emerged, and will be gone soon when...

I’ve added a challenging question to my morning routine. I ask myself if I am ready to die. The complete answer depends upon three...

In the evening last night around dinnertime, I was outside with the dogs and my guitar, watching the sun go down, and I heard several...

I swam for a long time in the ocean yesterday. My longest swim in years. It was early in the morning, when the air was still and the sea...

I listened to a podcast (link in comments) yesterday, by a thirty-something year old American man living in Shizuoka Japan, a young...

It’s 5:00 AM in California and 9:00 PM tomorrow in Japan, and I’m texting now with my daughter in Kyoto, reading about her impressions of...

I’ve been swimming daily now in the ocean for several weeks. My body has changed, growing stronger with the muscles I use to swim, skin...

A woman spoke to me at the pharmacy yesterday. We were seated close to one another, waiting for our prescriptions to be called. The woman...