Friday Chicken #139: the best holes

In which I cover the good stuff and the hard stuff in my week, trying for the non-preachy, non-annoying side of ritual and self-reflection. And you get to join in if you feel like it. Let’s see. It was kind of a disjointed week again. The hard stuff Coming down...

Setting it up.

Over the past few months I’ve been spending a huge portion of my time trying to set things up for Slightly Future Me so her day goes well and she feels cared for by me. It’s a pretty interesting practice. Last week I was on my vacation and things were...

Saving.

I’m recovering from my first encounter with the insanely insane number that is what I’m paying in taxes this year. We knew it would be insane, of course, just not the sum of the insanity. After five years in a growing business, this was the first year as a...

There’s No Way This Can End Well.

I have a sadness story. It’s a story that lives inside of my consciousness, and it’s all about how everything ends in tears and regret. This story is so familiar that sometimes I think it is me. When I pull away from it so we can see each other, I...
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