What a year makes
It’s been a strange 12 months:
Just over a year ago, a friend died at age 45 from leukemia.
About eight months ago, my last uncle died.
Two friends needed surgery, one of which was a heart transplant.
I herniated a disc so badly that I had to have my vertebrae in my neck fused and [...]
It’s been unusual Cleveland weather the last few weeks. Mostly, it’s cold and gray. However, it’s often been cold and sunny. Cold? OK. Sunny? Confusing…especially in Cleveland.
My disposition has been similar. Life has been stressful, but there are sunny moments. I can also see that it won’t [...]
Life’s too busy, right now.
I must retreat. Cut back. Slim down. Simplify. Focus.
You know what I mean?
Lately, I’ve felt like I lack a narrative structure in my life.
Now, this feeling might suggest I have issues. You know…issues.
Our lives aren’t stories that are conceived, constructed, written and published. They aren’t narrative, in the sense that there is necessarily a coherent story that connects everything neatly together at the end. [...]
I have been rearranging my schedule in recent weeks. I’m always short on time. I try to find a way to make everything work by balancing time for sleep against work against family against friends against exercise against…
There is never enough free time.
If work needs more time, other things shift. When exercise time is [...]
