Running is a dick. This is because running refuses to ever get easier. And it’s never like you think it is while you’re watching someone run in a movie. You know that montage where Rocky Balboa is training to fight the juiced-up, tech-trained Russian, Ivan Drago? And Rocky goes from moderately buff, to super-psycho ripped? And he does all these… Read more →
I celebrated Bastille day, yesterday. But apparently the French don’t refer to it as Bastille day, they call it La Fête Nationale. Which means National Celebration. Which, really, means they could be celebrating anything. But it happens on July the 14th because that’s when the storming of the Bastille happened a little ways back in 1789. And, given that I… Read more →
I sit in the Starbucks next to the City Creek mall in the heart of downtown Salt Lake City. It’s a Tuesday afternoon. From hour to hour, a sample of the city’s population arrives in waves. Chief among these is the young, single, professional woman. She’s in her mid to late 20’s. Sometimes early 30’s. Dressed in her… Read more →
you know what’s great about getting older? is that you realize that everybody is insecure and nobody knows shit and the only difference is that some people are less insecure than others and they pretend to know their shit and it somehow works out for them if they stick with it. not that I ever stick with anything. but it’s… Read more →
My brother texted me last weekend. He said, “If you die before me, I’m totally doing a photo montage of you to the Mama Cass song ‘make your own kind of music’—the words fit you so well.” I listened to the song. And it made me happy that he thought of me that way. In some circles, I am a nobody.… Read more →
I know you. You have a pretty good job, but it doesn’t pay enough, and it takes more of your time than it should. You have some debt—more than than you’re comfortable with—and even though it limits what you can do with your money, it’s manageable. You have a place to live, but it isn’t the house you plan on… Read more →
The world moves at a confusingly rapid pace. People all around you doing better than you financially. Maybe they have family connections that gave them an easier start. Maybe they focused more in school, or in work. Maybe they hate their lives or they’re in debt, or they are in a miserable marriage, or their kids are totally messed up,… Read more →
Life is a gamble. You don’t know what will happen. If you want a relationship, you have no guarantee that the person you fall in love with will actually make a good partner. If you are having trouble getting into a relationship with a person you are strongly attracted to, and the clock is ticking, and you want kids, it’s… Read more →
This blog is intended to be a tool for me. I use it to develop a voice. To clarify my ideas. To help me know what content to add to my book, Selfulness. Only, I’ve let it fail me. I have hundreds of posts that have been started that will never see the light of Internet day. Hundreds. At the… Read more →
Like most people that have never accomplished anything of note, I like to consider myself an experiential person. Which means that I live more for experience than for stuff. Stuff like a nice car; a big house; fancy vacations; or being out of debt. You know, the stuff most adults get once they decide to be grown ups. The kind… Read more →