Going Alone

I believe that Yumiko and I are as prepared for our new life together as we might hope to be. With our daughter leaving us this coming...

Yumiko and I watched a movie last night called Ad Aster, starring Brad Pitt and Tommy Lee Jones. We enjoyed the film, which is a science...

The arrival of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) is an opportunity to exercise the Stoic virtue of Apathy in the face of what we cannot easily...

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...

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

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...

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....

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...

How much distance do we travel when we stand still? How far and fast do we go while asleep in our beds? And how hasty our journey even...

October 19, 2019 Dear Eric, I write these words now almost twenty years to the day since I completed my story of you and Joe-Bob, sharing...

October 16, 2019 Dear Eric, To the best of my knowledge, you never once went truly alone into the wild. But that's no surprise, as few...

October 13, 2019 Dear Eric, I expect you discovered Stoic principles without knowing they were such, as ideas like these are natural to...

October 11, 2019 Dear Eric, I think we all desire to do well. And by this I mean to not just get by, but to complete our work to the...

October 10, 2019 Dear Eric, You not only knew the exact place and time of your death but you indeed even walked there. You went alone. I...

October 9, 2019 Dear Eric, My home was found at last with a school and way called Stoic. You never knew this journey, I think. We both...

October 8, 2019 Dear Eric, And what of the fearful things of this world...? You knew some of these, and yet you fell at the first major...

October 6, 2019 Dear Yumiko, There's investment in adventure which yields return throughout our remaining days. For me, this is...

October 5, 2019 Dear Eric, There's a place I go to work. It's way out in the desert - almost two-hundred miles from my current home by...

October 4, 2019 Dear Eric, Do we borrow from tomorrow when we live in an imagined better day? Maybe not. Perhaps this is how we make way...

October 1, 2019 Dear Eric, Good and evil never crossed our minds; and we certainly never attempted to define these concepts or what...