Category: Miscellaneous

Last weekend I did some digging in my old files as one does when they’ve been under a Stay at Home order for a few weeks. I was, like many […]

This time of year, it can be more difficult to stay focused in the present. At least for me. I tend to look ahead to a new year and reflect […]

The Devil is in the details. What does this phrase even mean? Where does it come from? I wrote this in my journal a couple of days ago as I […]

“That’s bullsh*t, and you know it.” The problem was, I didn’t “know it,” I didn’t even THINK it. Here I was though, in an apparently public forum being accused of […]

“I’m afraid he’s going to get me.” When I finally stopped to listen to the still, small voice inside my head, the one that I think has been suffering the […]

Lately, I have been doing a lot of reading in the self-improvement genre. I just finished Gary John Bishop’s Unfu*k Yourself (2017). Before that, was Brene Brown’s Braving the Wilderness […]

Are you writing a book or is this blog… it? I’m hearing this question from more of you, so I wanted to take this time to update you on this […]

In his book Outliers, Malcolm Gladwell writes an often-misquoted idea that “ten thousand hours is the magic number of greatness.” Meaning that 10,000 hours of deliberate practice can result in […]

Go with that. These three words comprise one of the signature phrases of Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing, or EMDR. For people who haven’t been able to digest their traumatic experiences, […]