Going Alone

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

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...

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 24, 2019 Dear Eric, Do you remember the flashy show we made of our youth? No, of course, you don't. You can't remember...

October 14, 2019 Dear Eric, What did you wonder over as you walked quietly to your death? I like to imagine you thought of the egg-laying...

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 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 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 3, 2019 Dear Eric, I think you could have rested quite comfortably upon a log, or a big rock, or on the sand, or a seat at the...

October 2, 2019 Dear Eric, What is the cost of yesterday? The cost is now. What is the value of yesterday? The value is maturity - but...

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

September 30, 2019 Dear Eric Looking back now from the vantage point of three-decades, I can see that we both lived and portrayed lives...

September 29, 2019 Dear Eric, Your gaze never once appeared to waver. Was this due to your youth? Was that it? Was it the strength and...