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We have a mouse problem. Many believe that they came here in the shipments of goods destined for the big box retail stores in our small town. They wreak havoc and destroy property. A friend of mine wh...
âEngageâŠâ
There was something about the way Jean-Luc Picard said it, sitting there at the bridge of the Enterprise with calm intensity, large and in-charge. You knew that when you heard âEngage,â somet...
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An Existential Excavation
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We tend to live as though we are immortal.
We devote our time and energy to meaningless pursuits: a fancier car, a bigger house, more stuff. Hours spent scrolling and...
There it is again.
Singing in the shower, and suddenly an unseen hand drives an ice pick through my vocal cordsâno sound will come, save ragged gasps and strangled yelps. My face is wet from more than ...
How Thought and Action Modify Your Biology, Your Life, and the Future
For decades, we believed that we are born with a fixed blueprintâthat a spiral-shaped molecule in our cells called deoxyribonucleic...
So youâve lost everything youâve worked for. All the people you trusted have betrayed you. Againâand maybe several times overâyou find yourself having to start from scratch.
Or you are dealing with iss...
You start out with the best of intentions: get up, do some exercise, make breakfast, get on with your day. You know how good it will feel when you check all those things off your to-do list and can ju...
âThese are the good old daysâ - Carly Simon (Anticipation, 1971)
Iâm as guilty as anyone. I can allow myself to focus on what I donât have, what I am working to create, to be. I can fall into a âdefici...
Iâll come right out with it: I donât have an MFA.
Neither doesâor didâStephen King, Don DeLillo, Cormac McCarthy, Neil Gaiman, or Dan Brown.
From Hemingway to Heinlein, Tolstoy to Tolkien, Salinger to S...
In 1888, Friedrich Nietzsche published Twilight of the Idols, in which he wrote: âWas mich nicht umbringt, macht mich stĂ€rker.â (What doesnât kill me makes me stronger.)
This sentiment was a critical p...
The What-If Mindshift: Why your brain defaults to fearâand how to train it to imagine opportunity.
âYou can âwhat-ifâ yourself to death,â she said.
She was right, of course. Iâm an INFP, a first-born, a...
You are on a long journey and you finally reach your destination. Now what, now that you have arrived? Should you continue?
Youâve planned this adventure for a long time. Weeks or months; maybe most of...
This article is the last in my mini-series on fear, stress and anxiety.
In the United States today, nearly 100 million adultsâmore than 40 percent of the populationâregularly use some chemical substanc...
You are. Miraculous, that is.
If you are reading or hearing this, you are here, alive and conscious. And that, my friends, is truly a miracle, because there is no rational explanation for itâfor you.
I ...
Itâs easy to feel âless than,â especially in todayâs world, where every time you doom scroll your social media feed you are bombarded with tales of the (apparently) rich, carefree and famous. You prob...
