It’s Saturn’s Fault! My Fight With Limerence
I’m going through some kind of transition in my life. My sleep is disrupted, I’m in the midst of (re)creating my life, yet I’m lapsing into behaviours that I thought…
In the Shadow of the Mountain
I ordered a pizza with real cheese yesterday. I’ve given up being vegan. Mostly it’s because I thought that by being vegan, I would avoid all those horrible health challenges…
10,000 Steps: Why Your Dog Has a Better Life Than You Do
When you think about it, dogs are living way better lives than we are now. I just spent the past two hours running back and forth in my yard moving…
Back to the Future – Never SAY Never
In an odd twist of fate, I am back at my old place of employment – the very place that fired me for refusing to be vaccinated. (This is now…
ChatGPT Says You Should Feel Good About Being a Dead End
Have you noticed the rise of articles talking about the world’s population crisis recently? In the 70s and 80s we were shamed by the environmentalists if we had more than…
How to Choose a Winning Environment
A few years ago I heard a saying that’s stuck with me: The environment always wins so choose a winning environment. What does this mean? First, there’s your physical environment.…
Hurting From the Truth & Being Free
My son got married last weekend but an occasion that should have been full of joy for me was an exercise in stoicism and humility. Thankfully, I was able to…
How I Learned to Love Humble Pie
Ray Dalio has made me see what I’m dealing with here: a great lesson in humility. I cannot tell you how it feels when people who once knew me as…
On Being a Nerd: How to Be Cool
Most of the time, I am a friendly kind of nerd – at least that is how I play my role in life. I like to appear unthreatening so that…
Bring Out Your Inner Pippi
It’s four in the morning. Wayne Dyer, the wise spiritual leader – on the other side now, as they say – has many videos still up on YouTube. I watched…