Every weekday evening, I typically have dinner alone at a familiar diner on Main Street where I always order a bowl of chili, with a side of cornbread. It’s ...

Every time I see a twenty-something at my place of employment I want to ask them sincerely, "why the hell are you here??" The decade of our twenties may be m...

looking back on the route so far, through the tangled weeds and forgotten and neglected spaces; I’ll remember fondly that I’d walked alone, and without the d...

I got the news on Sunday, February 23rd, 2020 that Mike Hughes had died. "Mad Mike" was killed while piloting his latest home-made rocket into the desert ski...

Mantises are fascinating insects closely related to termites and cockroaches. All mantises are predatory and will eat anything they can catch...including o...

I previously imagined that the risk of avoiding risk was shallow on the domestic side, and deep on the personal side; that those who sought their inner cours...

We live best When we return from the cold And choose the inward path of warmth A life of now And a life of here And a life with others Going Alone leads to t...

The Great Buddha (Daibutsu or 大仏 in Japanese) of Kamakura City Japan is one of the most popular and interesting places to visit when you come to Japan. Not f...

It's so easy to get caught-up in the illusion that our lives are our own, self-guided affairs. That we have much or anything at all to say about the course o...

Sometimes, we decide to go forward. Sometimes, we leave behind what's safe and sound and settled and seemingly good. Some of us do this to better ourselves a...

November 23 2019 Dear Eric, The very first principle I identified for The Good Life is something call The Path of Wildness. I happened upon this idea while l...

November 13, 2019 Dear Eric, I sometimes - often, in fact - indulge a little too much. The temptation is so innocent a thing...just another slice of pizza, j...

November 12, 2019 Dear Eric, I recently added a new principle to The Good Life which I call the Principle of Public Speaking. The idea is to always imagine t...

November 6, 2019 Dear Eric, I'm very good at being wrong. It's a knack, kinda. And I'm often wrong on the same decision more than once. That's a real talent ...

November 4, 2019 Dear Eric, I've noticed a new trend in my thinking and writing... I've been coming upon the theme of fire often. Not fire, as in burning fir...

October 31, 2019 Dear Eric, It's a neat trick to neither lament nor attempt to remember the lives we did not live. For we all walk strange roads in our minds...

October 30, 2019 Dear Eric, Both joy and suffering can yield the same sweet harvest if we know how to winnow the chaff from the grain. For there is good grai...

October 29, 2019 Dear Eric, I'd like to tell you the tale of my falling, and my recovery. It's a good tale. And most of us have such a tale. Sadly, yours is ...

October 28, 2019 Dear Eric, When we are young there are many who hear; though as we age there seem fewer to listen. There is something about the ripeness of ...

October 27, 2019 Dear Eric, Nice try, that... Though maybe you will have the last laugh. But I think you left us on the promise of wishful thinking... You wi...