I decided to indulge and picked up the Audible version of Rick Rubin’s book The Creative Act and I have to say I am floored by it. I already had an idea that this legend of the music business was on another level than the rest of us but having a window into it is…

There exists a sort of organized chaos within the clutter of my mind. Most of the time I spend trying to wrangle it into submission for the sake of being a productive human being. Every once in a while, though, the patterns become clear and there is a calm in this otherwise messy space. I’ve…

It’s nearing the end of July and as is tradition in our little corner of the Midwest, things outside are getting particularly sticky and gross. Walk outside for more than a few minutes and you are sweating and hating your life. It is at times like these I remember how lucky I am and express…

Inspiration is a tricky thing to navigate. It would be handy to be able to summon it at will to do my bidding so I could function more effectively as a creative, but that’s not the reality we live in. Inspiration comes and goes as it pleases, and for that reason, I respect it. Every…

The concept of imbalance is one I’ve grown familiar with over the past few years as I watched my dad give his life to his work believing it was the right thing to do only to be killed for his effort. I knew that he had an unhealthy relationship with work; the kind of one-sided,…

After months of arguably pointless deliberations, the supreme court struck down student loan forgiveness with the least surprising vote, 6-3. It is a decision that felt preordained from the moment forgiveness was announced by the current administration. The rational among us saw the plan as a political gambit with just about zero chance of holding…

There are fires that are so numerous and large burning in Canada that we are getting bombarded by the cloud of debris, haze, and smoke all the way down in the Midwest. It makes it difficult to go outside and accomplish anything, since the air is tough to breathe. In fact, it’s so dense that…

A lot of what I spend my time doing is staring broadly into space putting together sentences. It’s pulling words from thin air and arranging them to be palatable. But it probably just looks like I’m doing nothing, staring at the breeze. I often find the words on that breeze, but sometimes they blow right…

We have acquired a 1997 Fleetwood Jamboree Searcher which we have dubbed Dolly, our soon-to-be workhorse road trip vehicle: This is a big deal. It’s a chance to hit the road and have some comforts of home away from home. We are still in the process of learning all about this world but when we…

I’m not sure if the number is accurate but I feel like I’ve tried to do and be 1,000,000 things in my life. So many that I’ve decided to commit them to their own, separate, project. I realize the irony, of course, that this may just be another thing with zero purpose other than to…