Tonight's entry number is the year I was born. Crazy! I'm feeling better. This week has been a good one for my psyche. I feel calm, focused, and energetic. At least until I get home, and then I feel tired. But that, I think, is normal. Got my new project for work...

I had good ideas today. Clear. Ideas that I think work. I'd been doubting the beginning of my book. It was feeling too hard. Too much. Too complicated. But that was the darkness, not the light. The clarity I had today on how to start this story solidified that it was...

I finished reading the first book of my Story Grid certification requirements today. The Killer Angels. It was pretty good. Dragged in parts. Not a book that made me really feel anything, BUT...it was rather spectacular in its ability to bring to life those several...

Finished watching The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, season 2. It was really good. Except for the last two episodes. Which is a shame, because endings really matter so much, don't they? We, as an audience, are so much more willing to forgive a bad beginning, or even a bad...

I have a cycle I run through whenever I get depressed. I've just recently realized it. I get anxious about something until it builds to some kind of breaking point. After that, I feel depressed, and my mind and body go into shutdown/recovery mode. I take a break......

It's tough when you don't feel good. I don't feel like those words quite adequately express what I want them to, but they're all the words I seem to have right now, and honesty is more important than eloquence. I have the feeling that I haven't been always honest with...

It was a tough week for me, guys. Which is a new feeling, because I got work done, and that's usually all I need. I really did power through, and I know logically that I truly got some solid work in, but it was just a tough week. Depressed. Anxious. A few highs, but...

"The Dip" is a concept from Seth Godin. I haven't read it--I just loaded it onto my kindle and the reading starts immediately after writing this--but I feel like I'm in one. A "dip," that is. I know I'm in one, actually. I've known that for a while. A dip is a...

I let go of some books today. I'd had them since I was a teenager. They were Star Trek books. I collected them. I'd buy them in hardcover, read them immediately, and then proudly put them on my shelf. I had dozens of them. Spines out. Dust jackets shiny and colorful....

Guys, when my wife and I first started dating, I was super suuuuper into EDM. I was into "Progressive" as it was called back then. House and Trance. Liz, being the fucking badass she is, was also into edm. This is the first song that she sent me:...