I'm afraid. I'm afraid of failure. I'm afraid that I will set a goal, set a timeline, and as has happened so many times before with my writing, I will not meet it. I'll fall short. I'm also afraid of success. If I succeed, then expectations follow. Responsibilities....

Happy Spooky Day, everyone! 🙂 I actually dressed up in costume tonight. For the second year in a row! Last year I was Chip and Liz was Joanna from Fixer Upper. This year I dressed up as Newt Scamander from Fantastic Beasts. Twas a hit. Probably the best costume I've...

I've been doing this blog for five years now...plus a day. I missed the anniversary last night! 😂 In my defense...yesterday was a loooong day. I wrote today. Not much, and not for long...it took me about an hour to write 500 words...but I did it. Tomorrow, I'm...

Whew. Okay...so today was a travel day. Got up early, even though pops and I talked for a long time last night, and "hustled" my parents out the door so we could go have breakfast together. I put "hustled" in quotes because it took half an hour, but that is excellent...

Today was really cool. I went out with my family up to Arcata, and there's this new section of the beach there where these giant sand dunes are, what's not a new section of the beach but they've turned this area into a park now and you can go there. It was so pretty....

Happy Birthday to quite literally the best man I know: my dad. I'm keeping this entry short tonight because it's already 2am and I've been up since 5:30am (with a one hour nap before dinner)...but I owe so much of who I am as a grown adult man to my father. He's one...

You know...there's always a post-milestone malaise for me, at least emotionally. See, I actually did work today. I got some outlining and brainstorming done for By Any Other Name, some good stuff...but no actual words on the page. Sigh. And, that's the let-down, I...

Woof. I spent the entire day today taking care of the building. It's always more work when we have a vacancy to fill, and this time, we have TWO. One was an inch away from being filled today, and in the end, they backed out. It happens all the time 😛 Hopefully,...

Writing a quick on tonight because I have to get eeaarrrlllyyyy 🙄 and it's late. I stayed up to watch the Warriors game, and I'm glad I did. Steph Curry TORCHED the Wizards tonight. He was absolutely incredible. 51 points in three quarters and 30-something...

It's been a while since I talked about journaling, and why I've been doing it daily (and publicly) for almost five years now. But, I have a friend who's just starting to journal, and it made me think about why I picked this habit up, and why I've stuck with it....