I find myself contemplating the life I was living just a few years ago and how out of balance it was. I hold up my life today as a model for comparison and it would seem like someone else’s. In 2021 around this time, I had really begun to feel the effects of burnout from…

I wandered onto YouTube to see what a couple channels I subscribe to had to say about all of the recent developments in the world and it was refreshing to see sane conversations being had. The comments sections were supportive and echoed much of the level and rational thinking that highlights how I try and…

The economic landscape has seemed to drop out from under everyone in the past week as markets took a nose dive. My response has been giddy laughter at the panic of all of the people on the news as they describe what has happened and what may happen next. No one is asking me my…

It just occurred to me that I have changed my entire tune on voting because of something Trump did earlier this week. In order to clarify if you happen to be reading this at some other point when the news cycle has moved on, I’ll remind you what it was. Trump was invited to be…

I have spent most of the current election cycle sure that we were barreling towards the inevitable disaster of another Trump term. It felt like a certainty, and I remain cautious of the possibility. But once the Democrats finally pulled their heads out of their asses and confronted Biden with reality, it seems like the…

We seem to be living in an age when people can do things with zero inherent value and get paid for them, so long as enough people interact with the content. I’d rather skip the middle part where I have to feign interest in a subject to make content and push it as hard as…

In daring to open this space to the public, I run the risk that my opinions on the state of the world will meet with resistance. As these are merely my opinions, I expect them to be taken with a grain of salt. But I am not sorry for how I feel and I will…

As a person who pulls words from thin air to transmute them into money, I am curious about the nature of these insights. They seem to appear of their own accord and often out of sync with when you need them. This leaves me convinced that such wisdom can only be obtained through careful observation…

Browsing through my posts on here it is apparent that I dislike almost everything about the world I live in. So that has me considering the opposite. What do I like about this world? Relationships The first thing that always comes to mind when I consider what I value is my relationships. First and foremost,…

Tomorrow is my 42nd birthday. I remain ambivalent about the day being any kind of occasion, and instead prefer to focus on others in the time surrounding this annual occurrence. Over the weekend, I was able to spend a lot of quality time with my muse and we had a good deal of fun together…