Have you ever thought about why it’s so important to you that your life matters? If you consider how much time you spend thinking about this you’d quickly conclude that I’m right on this one. You want your life to matter. You can admit it. No shame in that. I want my life to matter […]

“You are making me sad.” My daughter says this sometimes. She’s 6. When she says it she’s trying to convey that my discipline or whatever caused her “sadness” is somehow my fault and is an offense to her little-girl perfection. It’s cute and disturbing all at once. She’ll get over it. I’m going to love […]

There is a chance that you are nothing special, just one in several billion currently occupying our planet. Many have come before. Others will follow. You will put in your days and then it will be someone else’s turn. You will make a good showing though some days will try to convince you they were […]

Our universe isn’t expansive. That would be a terrible way to describe it. Expansive is far too imaginable to describe how massive the known and observable chunk of our universe is. Look up at the clear night sky. Behold the diamonds twinkling from their heavenly helms. It’s awe-some. You still only see a sliver of what’s out there, […]

“How could it take you 5 minutes to cook your grits when it takes the entire grit-eating world 20 minutes?” The microphone has just relocated from Joe Pesci’s hand to the courtroom floor. It’s an iconic scene from an iconic movie to those of us who find Joe Pesci entertaining. There sits the Karate Kid […]

I could be dead in some ditch. But somehow I’m not. I could have pain that crushes my will. But for some reason I don’t. I could have contracted some disease or watched someone close slip away to one. But those things just haven’t happened yet. And they might never, though I think that’s unlikely. […]

There are a few of you out there that may not have seen me at my best. Not something particularly recent. Though, there are probably plenty of particulars we could pluck from the pieces of time’s pie just prior to the present. I mean to address those moments long and not-so-long past where I didn’t […]

A great story has a theme that guides it through the wilderness and into the halls of time. Even when the story itself doesn’t know it’s being guided or even that it’s in the wilderness. I’ve been learning a lot about this from author and bonafide human being, Steven Pressfield. He’s been writing about writing […]

There is a right way to live your life. Only you know if you’re doing it or not. This should come as a great relief to us all. Here’s why: We can stop complaining. You’re the only one who can really know if you’re living your life properly. No one else can judge the things […]