Going Alone

How much more decorous a possession than honest self-reflection; though there is nothing to see in such wealth besides the owner's...

Yumiko and I decided to downsize after Emily left to begin life on her own. Our own move began just two days after Emily left our home on...

All memorable events, I should say, transpire in the morning time and in morning atmosphere. -Henry David Thoreau There is a season in...

Waking up early is a very good use of time; for it reminds us soon that we are still alive and provides an opportunity to bring in a full...

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...

Next week, our daughter Emily will leave us. As a family, on Saturday, July 11th, we will spend a day moving her few things to an...

During a discussion with a coworker today I realized I had said too much. It would have been better if I had left off speaking after my...

My daughter Emily joined me on this trip after I hired her to draw a map and various illustrations for use with the Going Alone and The...

While Emily works to enliven the wastes below the bridge, I relate the final chapter of Going Alone, which both acknowledges and...

My daughter joins me at Siberia to learn about the ruins and guess at the stories of the lives which were once lived at this place and...

Every time I go to Siberia I can sense my diminishing capacity to withstand the world as it is and always will be; harsh, raw, deadly and...

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...

I might go out Into life, To see what is there, And then return in peace. Or, I might stay, Seeking peace; Wondering always... What there...

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

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 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...

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 25, 2019 Dear Eric, Though you lived few years, I think you lived many days. As you were around much during the time when you...

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...