Patience & Fortitude

Getting Walled In – or not

Back to the idea of not focusing on what you hate that I posted about a couple of days ago: Here we are at treacherousness part II, “Hating something requires less energy, focus and effort than the complex discovery process of finding what we love.” Hating...

What DO you want, anyway?

I think the most treacherous trip-up in the world to someone looking to improve her/his life is to spend lots of time focusing what they don’t want, don’t like, or fear.* In writing this, I realized there are three separate issues going on which I want to...

To hell with my resume

In October, 2010, I stumbled across my resume folder on my computer. Clearly there is something inherently evil about April, as the last five resume drafts were all created in May. Over and over, every few years in May (after losing my job-du-jour in April) I would...

Grieving Futures, post #2

Authoria: Another excerpt from my book, Grieving Futures. Once a week I am posting a section from it, in sequential order. ~~~~~~~~~~~ INTRODUCTION, part 2: I have found books over the years about losing parents aimed towards young children and alternately towards...

Hope for Tomorrow

Sometimes I stay up late – really late. I’m so tired my eyes water but I force myself to stay up, distracting myself with nonsense. It hurts, and I hate it, but it’s a hard habit to break. When I get squirrelly in the evening, I know it’s going to be one of those...

Grieving Futures, Post #1

Authoria: Grieving Futures is my free book detailing my experiences dealing with the deaths of my parents when I was in my mid-twenties. You can download it, share it, copy it, whatever you want. My goal has always been to make it as widely and freely available as...