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For a long time, I’ve been largely silent on this blog, apart from my regular and automated updates via Twitter. Those of you who read those, or who follow my Twitter stream more regularly, will also note that I’ve been rather quiet there too… most of my updates consist of Foursquare check-ins, occasionally with [...]
Another day, another book review. I went to the library yesterday and picked up Born on a Blue Day: Inside the Extraordinary Mind of an Autistic Savant, by British author Daniel Tammet.
The memoir was recommended to me by my dear friend Ewan, who mentioned it when I shared with him that I [...]
Yesterday Paul and I went down to New Jersey to my aunt’s house for a barbecue in celebration of Independence Day.
My primary motivator for going was to see my grandmother, who was diagnosed with brain cancer in April and has since undergone a six-week course of radiation (5 days a week) and oral [...]
It’s so much easier, over the short haul, to lie to yourself.
But it adds up over time and makes your life a living hell.
So being honest with yourself, although difficult in the moment, is a lot more rewarding in the long run.
First, you have to admit it to yourself, whatever “it” is. [...]
If you’re the type of person who allows yourself to feel rejected or abandoned, you basically spend your life handing out baseball bats to people, and waiting for them to beat you about the head with them.
Maybe time to stop handing out the bats?
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