Blog question challenge 2025

I’m using real-life as shorthand for people I know and interact with in my physical life versus my digital life. I think online friends are real,  None of my real-life...

Well, I read a bunch of fiction. Winter is such a good time for reading. It’s the coziest. Get a hot beverage and a snack, curl up on the couch,...

A few notes from Four Thousand Weeks by Oliver Burkeman, a January read. You’re not gonna do it all, so quit trying. Be realistic and limit what you actually expect to...

Fail more often is my new life goal and I think I’m gonna nail this one. Having earned now • the experience of failure many times over, • and the...

Here’s the thing: When you write about yourself, your own experience, it can’t be fair. By nature, by instinct, and even by design, I want a story that is understandable...