by Ira | Jan 3, 2025 | Challenge, Journal
We’re five movies away from finishing Hitchcock. Wild. Tonight it was The Birds. It holds up in some ways, mostly in how influential it was on movies that followed. He did that back to back, in fact, with this one and Psycho. Pretty cool. But, yeah…home stretch, which...
by Ira | Jan 2, 2025 | Challenge, Journal
Do I “play” in my daily life? What says “play” to me? I play constantly. Genuinely—Liz and I play games all the time. They mostly revolve around word/music games, where we make up songs or lyrics to existing songs. I guess it’s one, long improv game of yes-and. I also...
by Ira | Jan 1, 2025 | Challenge, Journal
What are my biggest challenges? Getting up in the morning is one of them. I’m decent at it, to be clear…but it is a CHALLENGE every. Single. Day. I’m not joking about that. It’s truly a challenge. That’s a weak point for me when it comes to resistance—if I don’t get...
by Ira | Dec 31, 2024 | Challenge, Journal
Happy New Year! It’s not midnight yet here on the west coast, but I’m going to bed, lol, so it’s an early well-wishes from me. I’m getting up on time tomorrow—a harbinger of the year I want, if you will. Kinda. Mostly, I just want the routine as quickly as I can get...
by Ira | Dec 30, 2024 | Challenge, Journal
What relationships have a positive impact on me? Certainly my wife, my partner in all things: Liz. We are unquestionably stronger together than we are apart. My dogs are what I think of next—my constant companions, the structure to every day, even those that don’t...
by Ira | Dec 29, 2024 | Challenge, Journal
The thing about writing over four thousand of these daily entries is that certain titles will end up being repeated. I’m sure this is one of them. It got coooolll tonight. Chilly out there. Coops is in his winter sweater, the blue and white one with the snowflakes on...
