Creative work
Creative work is hard but it is so much better than the alternative. Creative work can be many different things to many different people. I...
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2024
In-person meetings and phone calls
Part of the “remembering who the heck I am” from yesterday’s grateful log is the simple thing of a phone call or an in-person meeting....
My Daily Journaling Practice
I journaled here and there in my teens, but didn’t develop a habit of talking to myself through the written word until 2007 at the...
Scattered Thoughts and Ideas
I’m not sure what it is lately but my brain has been an absolute pinball machine. I have had to have three or four notebooks...
Monday
I enjoy Monday’s the most out of any day of the week. I enjoy the fresh week, the clean slate, the unknown. I also enjoy...
Being Capable, but Aware of my Weaknesses
Just about every new day for me on this planet I wake up with a new idea or thought. My brain very quickly determines if...
Today was a good day
Leather work, "brand identity" work, breakfast out with Mozzie after two quick face to face meetings this morning, then he helped with some leather stuff...
Accepting the challenge, Taking it head on.
Yesterday was an absolute dumpster fire, for lack of a better term and because dumpster fire is just so accurate (if I can find a...
Feeling: Lonely
...And a bit vulnerable by sharing this. It has been well over 5 years since I felt like I had someone I could fully and...
No Screens After Dinner
One of the things that Lindsay and I take very seriously in our post-divorce world and life is parenting. We continue to parent together despite...
Understanding What Makes Me Tick
I mentioned yesterday that only after 19 years do I feel like my ex-wife and I are finally understanding one another. The same is beginning...
38 Today
I have been around on this earth now for 38 years. Being human is quite an experience, I must say. Unpredictable, mostly full of resistance...
Slept great on the couch
Several years ago sleeping on the couch was a bad thing. It usually meant one of two things: the proverbial “sleep on the couch” because...
Grateful log for Sat, 09 Mar 2024
1. Feeling rested 2. Mozzie seems to have kicked whatever had hold of him on Thursday. 3. Today is the day Today is the DayI...
Grateful log for Fri, 08 Mar 2024
1. With Mozzie all day today 2. Started on the new workbench last night 3. Problems to solve Started on the new workbench last nightI...
Grateful log for Mon, 04 Mar 2024
1. Outside in the sun for 2 hours yesterday. 2. My past-self writing things down and putting those things in places where my present-self would...
Grateful log for Wed, 28 Feb 2024
1. Being able to put into words what and how I am feeling. 2. Rain and Thunder. 3. Dinner with my parents last night. Being...
Grateful log for Mon, 26 Feb 2024
1. Mozzie and Lindsay arrived safely in Florida 2. Have Lucy for the week 3. Sunday state of mind Sunday State of MindI’ve mentioned Church...
Grateful log for Sat, 24 Feb 2024
1. List is coming together for the furniture to build, first up is a new workbench. 2. Fresh haircut yesterday. 3. Feeling comfortable (slowly and...
Grateful log for Fri, 23 Feb 2024
1. Beard is gone, for now. 2. School day with Mozzie. 3. Hit 30,000 miles on my Sonata lease. Beard is gone, for now I...
