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Last winter in Scotland
February is the twelfth-best month of the year. Doubly so in Scotland, one of the most oppressively rainy and dark places I have ever been. This is our fifth winter in a row here and, thankfully, our last.
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Save others or save yourself?
I’m fond of giving the advice that in order to help others, you must first help yourself, but the opposite is also true. You have to do both.
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Setting goals that counter the “what-the-hell effect”
I came across the “what the hell effect” today. Say you have a goal to limit your intake of sweets to no more than two per day. If you slip up one day and have three or four, the “what the hell effect” kicks in. This is our irrational reaction to missing a goal where…
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Murakami on fiction (and why you should read some)
I’m a big fan of Haruki Murakami and just finished reading Kafka on the Shore. Like all his fiction, I find it kind of impossible to describe. It’s everything, all at once, I guess?! I find it wonderful, but I realize it’s not for everyone. Do you know what it is, though? Fiction. If you…
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The GoPro is my new favorite toy
I received a GoPro as a Christmas gift, and it’s quickly become my favorite new toy. This past week, I’ve been experimenting with it on my runs and walks with our dog, Rubee, and have compiled some scintillating footage that is probably only interesting to me (unless you have a fetish for dark and dreary…
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Being an adult
As someone who is still very much on the path to adulthood (and who still feels pretty far away from that at times), I appreciated getting a bit of a trail guide from a recent Q&A with legendary professional coach Jerry Colonna.
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Eddie Chacon, Butcher Brown, and more of my favorite albums from January 2024
The 59-year-old singer of Charles & Eddie fame is back with a second album of tightly written melodies and abstract tracks that draw you in to a rich, heady world Eddie Chacon: Sundown review by Alexis Petridis in The Guardian Here are the albums that inspired me this past month.
Writing and drawings by Nick.
