This feeling of forward momentum has come over me lately. And a thought that keeps going on in the back of my mind: “Just keep going. Just keep going. You’ll get somewhere…
Category: Shenanigans & Ruminations
Day 25: Time Is Going to Pass Anyway…
Listen up, folks. Time is passing. RIGHT NOW. As you read this, seconds are ticking away. Minutes become hours, hours become days, days become weeks, weeks become months, months become years, years…
Day 21: Long Live the Weird!
As far as I’m concerned, the mantra of this blog could be “Fly Your Freak Flag.” I still feel like a weirdo sometimes when I write here. After all, I write about…
Day 7: Benefiting From Slightly-Ago Me
One of the benefits of writing in this blog again is getting to review older posts. Recently, two posts from late December 2020 stood out to me: Practicing Ease and Effortlessness and…
Not Nice Chris Comes Out to Play
I’m reading a book about overcoming “being nice,” and it’s challenging me to re-think some of my own behaviors. So I decided to create a little list of some things I think….
Slow and Steady to My First Marathon
My Christmas Day unfolded as follows: I ran 10 miles this morning, came home and after a nice breakfast enjoyed gift-giving with my wife. We then visited with family on Zoom, after…
A Wonderful Year?
Well, here we are. The end of 2020 is upon us. Somehow, we made it. I had no doubt we would 🙂 And yet, it feels like a milestone. 2020: the year…
Soothing the Mental Patient
It’s interesting to be with this mind of mine. Up and down my mood can go, like a roller coaster, a consequence of the monkey-mind head chatter that acts up sometimes. One…
Wired to Conform?
Jason Zweig wrote an excellent book called “Your Money & Your Brain,” which I have written about repeatedly, because it is so dang good (!). While it is focused around people’s behavior…
Discerning Those Yellow Bricks
By and large, you could say that I have spent the last twenty years doing all I can to cultivate inner peace. It’s a big part of what my happiness obsession is…