Personal Digressions What is this place? Is it where I put my polished essays, my best work, or is it where I just put my thoughts?
Personal Digressions Struggles of a Struggling Struggler Thoughts on avoiding writing from a coffee shop.
Subtle Digressions On Running, Writing, and Life: Some Advice from Haruki Murakami Exerting yourself to the fullest within your individual limits: that’s the essence of running, and a metaphor for life — and for me, for writing as well.
Subtle Digressions The Book Thief And The Power Of Words "I have hated the words and I have loved them, and I hope I have made them right."
Basement Storage Do you think your writing is worth doing – as an end in itself? "It is," I said. "It is the one altogether pleasant thing about it."
Basement Storage Consistency: The Antidote to Perfectionism Creativity is hard. It's even harder when you are trying to find your creative voice. Perfectionism paralyzes us. So what's the alternative?
Basement Storage Books I read in 2021 As 2021 began, I decided to actively read more books. I was focused mostly on books that could teach me how to be a better writer, what it takes to be a great writer, and how to pursue creative endeavors.
Basement Storage What if 5-year olds were racist? (Or how 5-year olds can teach us to be more tolerant) The world is full of sexism, racism, homophobia, islamophobia, and all other kinds of phobias and -isms. But I have never seen a 5-year old that is racist.
Basement Storage Featured Unbroken, Unbent. A poem in support and honor of the people of Ukraine that are fighting for their homeland from the Russian invasion.
Basement Storage Featured The Window — An Unappreciated Marvel The window is truly a canvas upon which real beauty is realized, perpetually changing…
Basement Storage Deeds, Not Words — My Stoic Musings 034 “Those who receive the bare theories immediately want to spew them, as an upset stomach does its food. First digest your theories and you…
Basement Storage Pick Your Sport Before You Start Training — My Stoic Musings 033 “First tell yourself what kind of person you want to be, then do what you have to do. For in nearly every pursuit we see this to be the…
Basement Storage Character is Greater than the Costume— My Stoic Musings 032 From dawn till dusk, we are all fighting battles we must win…
Basement Storage What Is The Point Of Philosophy? — My Stoic Musings 031 “Don’t return to philosophy as a task-master, but as patients seek out relief in a treatment of sore eyes, or a dressing for a burn, or…
Basement Storage It is Better to be Watson instead of Sherlock — My Stoic Musings 030 “I don’t know” will save your life.
Basement Storage Just Do It — My Stoic Musings 029 “At every moment keep a sturdy mind on the task at hand, as a Roman and human being, doing it with strict and simple dignity, affection…
Basement Storage Featured Michael Jordan’s Ruling Principle — My Stoic Musings 028 “Take a good hard look at people’s ruling principle, especially of the wise, what they run away from and what they seek out.” — Marcus…
Basement Storage Epictetus’s 3 Areas Of Training — My Stoic Musings 027 “There are three areas in which the person who would be wise and good must be trained. The first has to do with desires and aversions —…
Basement Storage Too Many Distractions — My Stoic Musings 026 “Erase the false impressions from your mind by constantly saying to yourself, I have it in my soul to keep out any evil, desire or any…
Basement Storage Life is about dancing…while the music is playing — My Stoic Musings 025 “What’s left to be prized? This, I think — to limit our action or inaction to only what’s in keeping with the needs of our own…
Basement Storage Why We Must Scribble In Our Books — My Stoic Musings 024 “From Rusticus… I learned to read carefully and not be satisfied with a rough understanding of the whole, and not to agree too quickly…
Basement Storage What’s So Different About The Rich— My Stoic Musings 023 “Let’s pass over to the really rich — how often the occasions they look just like the poor!”