Category: Life

  • 100 miles a month

    100 miles a month

    Has intermittent fasting been good for my running? The data says yes.

  • Forget yourself

    Forget yourself

    My daughter has a habit of giving me books that knock me over.

  • Managing your manager is like loading the dishwasher

    Managing your manager is like loading the dishwasher

    What do managers and dishwashers have in common? Follow me now…

  • The hammock effect

    The hammock effect

    There’s something special about a hammock.

  • Bodyboarding (and more) in Myrtle Beach

    Bodyboarding (and more) in Myrtle Beach

    Since moving we haven’t had much of a break. That is, until last weekend when we experienced (literally) the Atlantic Ocean’s break. It was our first time bodyboarding, and it was awesome.

  • One month and “some change”

    One month and “some change”

    July 25th was our last day in Scotland. It’s been one month and some change (pun intended) since we packed up the last of our belongings and moved (back) to the US from Scotland almost exactly 5 years to the day that we originally moved there in 2019. I promised it would be our last…

  • The three most difficult things

    The three most difficult things

    I’m posting this for me to remember later from the superb book Awareness by Anthony De Mello. “Someone once said, “The three most difficult things for human being are not physical feats or intellectual achievements. They are, first, returning love for hate; second, including the excluded; third, admitting that you are wrong.””

  • Moving day, part 1

    Moving day, part 1

    The company we enlisted to help us move from the UK back to the States came last week to take our stuff on a boat. We are officially in moving mode now (and have been for some time). Chaos rules.