Going Alone

Circumstance got me last night… My guard was down and I found myself reacting beyond reason to an event which was both predictable and ...

My head is back above water now, and I can see the shore roughly a quarter-mile away. The coast here is another alien place, this time...

It’s raining hard at the beach this morning. That late autumn rain falling hard from enormous clouds rolling in from the sea. The rain ...

Life chapters fade like a gas station passed on a highway…growing smaller in the mirror each time we look back, details fading, ...

A new life requires the death of an old life, and death is hard. It’s 4:18 AM and I’ve a long, unfamiliar commute in darkness ahead of...

My neighbor Harold showed up as I was dropping off the key. This man played a part in many of my Good Life videos over the past year and...

My last Good Life video in Menifee. I don’t think Yumiko and I will ever again live beyond the marine layer. Time is simply too short....

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

It’s move day. And I’m doing The Good Life meditation on the run. The Good Life Meditation is my daily recitation and reminder of...

I couldn’t sleep last night. Up, tossing and turning and worrying over things which I may not even be able to recall in a year. I keep...

I invite horror, or at least the imagination of horror, into my life every day. Truly terrible thoughts, which cause my face to squirm...

I always worry ahead of someplace new. Every time Yumiko and I change homes I imagine a handful of bad things that might happen in the...

It’s Monday again and I’m ready for another week of work. Alright, maybe I’m not as ready as I’d like to be… I’m pretty tired actually....

Yesterday’s surgery was an eye-opening experience for me on several fronts: first, tackling the onset of my own inevitable bodily...

I am always on the lookout in my reading for evidence of others who have spotted and reported on the quality of nature which I found in...

Death possesses us piecemeal. We are taken slowly, day by day, hour by hour, and across every minute of our life. We start dying the...

There is this folly, Eric, by which we wait to live until death has nearly arrived. The habit begins young, when mortality seems a...

I've formed a small association of companions Eric, of whom I know you would approve. Sadly, like you, they are all dead and I must...

I met a new word today... A very interesting word, to be sure. This new vocabulary for me is indifferentia. I found this word while...