Writing is hard.This is something that I was aware of before beginning this newsletter practice, but I’m finding that things aren’t exactly going as I had envisioned. One of the main reasons I started writing a newsletter was so that I could have a m...

This past October my parents left for what turned out to be a month to take care of my grandma. Admittedly, I was looking forward to having the house to myself. There are a number of factors that contribute to why I’m still living at home as I near t...

Today is February 5th, which I guess means it’s time for my annual post-concussion update. It has now been 3130 days since this journey began with concussion number one, and 1096 days, or three years, since concussion number three.Overall, there have...

This is my fourth attempt at writing a newsletter today. After spending twenty or thirty minutes on three separate topics, I got annoyed and switched gears. I wasn’t annoyed at any of the topics; they’re all topics I want to write about, but I just w...

When I was in the early stages of considering an email newsletter I was overwhelmed by the process. I spent hours researching different newsletter providers. I knew what the go-to ones were, but I wanted to make sure I found one that would give me th...

On September 22, 2020, I published my first newsletter. To start, I didn’t commit to any regular schedule, I just knew this was a habit that I wanted to cultivate. To my surprise, things went better than expected. Despite no commitment, I successfull...

Jon Acuff, in his book Quitter: Closing the gap between your dream job & your day job, reflects on his first blog that almost no one read and that didn’t grow despite him showing up and writing for an entire year.“Looking back on it, I needed tha...

Yesterday was a pretty rough day for me. Over the past 8+ years, I’ve had a lot of pretty rough days and a lot of very rough days thanks to three concussions and a neck injury. It’s taken a lot of time and a lot of hard work, but thankfully the rough...

I just spent the last half hour researching how to fix my computer. For the last few weeks, its start-up time has gotten longer and longer. Unfortunately, this isn’t the first half hour I’ve spent on this problem. I’ve tried four different things so...

Last Tuesday night I sent out my very first email newsletter. This felt like such a big win for me. It’s something that I’d been meaning to do for a while now, but, like so many other things, it just sat on my overflowing back burner.But I finally to...

On September 22, 2020, I published my first newsletter. To start, I didn't commit to any regular schedule, I just knew this was a habit that I wanted to cultivate. To my surprise, things went better than expected. Despite no commitment, I successfull...

Jon Acuff, in his book Quitter: Closing the gap between your dream job & your day job, reflects on his first blog that almost no one read and that didn't grow despite him showing up and writing for an entire year.Looking back on it, I needed that...

Yesterday was a pretty rough day for me. Over the past 8+ years, I've had a lot of pretty rough days and a lot of very rough days thanks to three concussions and a neck injury. It's taken a lot of time and a lot of hard work, but thankfully the rough...

I just spent the last half hour researching how to fix my computer. For the last few weeks, its start-up time has gotten longer and longer. Unfortunately, this isn't the first half hour I've spent on this problem. I've tried four different things so...

Last Tuesday night I sent out my very first email newsletter. This felt like such a big win for me. It's something that I'd been meaning to do for a while now, but, like so many other things, it just sat on my overflowing back burner.But I finally to...