Category: Living

Life is hard. And full. And awesome. Live it.

  • My 3 Words for 2024

    My 3 Words for 2024

    These are the three words I use to guide the year. It’s a practice I’ve been up to since 2016 and find it helps me focus.

  • Beyond Resolutions

    Beyond Resolutions

    As we start planning to make the new year better than the last, let’s prepare to help one another live a better life, with joy and courage.

  • My Favorite Book of 2023

    My Favorite Book of 2023

    I read a bunch of different books this year, but one book stood out. It rewired within me the very sense of what life actually is.

  • 100 things that made my year (2023)

    100 things that made my year (2023)

    A collection of things that made this year cool, from vacations, things learned, to new things done. All wrapped up in one.

  • When have you needed a truck?

    When have you needed a truck?

    The easy question we ask ourselves is “Is it possible that I will want it?” when we should be asking “how often will I actually use it?

  • Critique or Fear?

    Critique or Fear?

    The challenge of evaluation in the modern age is that we are all doing it all of the time. Which critiques are worth anything to us?

  • Light—and how much we fear the dark

    Light—and how much we fear the dark

    Our experience of the dark, of night, reminds us of our sense of being alone, and what we crave alongside safety is genuine connection.

  • Fleeing the Sinking Ship

    Fleeing the Sinking Ship

    We rarely use this metaphor correctly. Which tells us a lot about what ails us. We want to be the virtuous one throughout the story.