Thursday, January 5, 2012
I’ve written about 25 blog entries over the past several years that I’ve never published because I didn’t think they were good enough. So, for New Year’s, I’m cleaning them up and clearing out my backlog of drafts. Roger Ebert, who for some reason has one of the smartest and most consistently readable blogs on [...]
Thursday, November 10, 2011
The world is a storm. We come in, screaming like waves shattering on a beach. We are battered by rain and by wind. Clouds and lightning keep us from seeing ourselves or our world clearly. We are, essentially, alone. Our struggles are fought mostly alone, mostly internally. We can reach out and hold hands, but [...]
I had a rough week. Actually, I’ve had a rough month. Some stuff came to a head this week, and I said to myself, “time to start looking for a counselor.” Mistake number one. At first, I was irritated because I was only finding counselors who identified as ‘Christian counselors.’ I find this offensive mostly [...]
Thursday, October 13, 2011
In my teens, I played guitar for a pretty substansial period of time. Mostly classical style. I don’t think I was very good, but I could sight-read reasonably well and I think I did okay for how stubby my fingers are. I had friends who were all writing their own music — metal or punk [...]
Wednesday, September 21, 2011
Rapidly changing your habits can feel like a godsend at first. It makes you feel powerful and in-control and that’s all wonderful. When you change quickly, the people around you notice. You can ride that high for months. I’m not strictly speaking about my diet, although that’s certainly an aspect of me that has changed in [...]
Sunday, September 11, 2011
When the twin towers went down, I was in class. I was sixteen years old. My AP world history teacher peeked his head in the door and told the teacher of that class (English, maybe?) to turn the tv on. We watched the second tower go down live. By the time we heard about the [...]
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Thursday, September 1, 2011
I’m not a sappy person. In spite of whatever this blog says or shows, 95% of the time, I am a person focused largely on what is rational, reasonable, logical, sensible. In the past, this was often to the detriment of my own emotional health. But that’s not what I came to say. About four [...]
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Wednesday, August 31, 2011
So, I’ve been tracking my eating with Lose It (the app for my phone and on the web) for a full month. A month ago, Michael and I sat down with some numbers, for example: The number which represents the dollar amount we spend monthly on food for me (Medifast – 5 meals a day, [...]
At some point, as people grow, they realize a few things. Well, some of us do and others of us never do. But in order to grow into a happy person, a person realizes at the very least that they are responsible for their own happiness. I guess what I mean is this – everyone [...]
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Saturday, August 13, 2011
I’ve been up for 2 (two) hours. Here is how my morning began. Wake up to cat scratching around my side of the bed. Yell at her. Hear a little more scratching, then nothing. Fall back asleep for a few minutes. Wake up to cat scratching again, sit up to yell at her. Cat crawls [...]