Going Alone

The very best thing about going alone is the being alone, and the more alone the better. It’s a cold and rainy evening, and I’ve...

I built a sandcastle at the beach yesterday. It was a silly thing to do at my age, but I was very cold after my swim, and I wasn’t ready...

Yumiko sent me to the beach today. It was after lunch, with some shopping yet to do, and she said ”Don’t you want to go for a swim?” So ...

Yesterday was very nice. A lovely Christmas Day. In the evening, before dinner, Yumiko and I walked to the end of the pier to watch the...

Merry Christmas! I received today the good fortune of another day of life. I promise I won’t waste it. #GoingAlone #TheGoodLife #Purpose...

Join me while I personalize a copy of Going Alone before sending it along on its way to a customer in Germany. #GoingAlone #TheGoodLife...

The old body is being a bit of a grump now on Christmas Day. The doctor confirmed my growing joint pain is arthritis, which feels more...

It’s seven AM here on the Pacific Coast and time for another live reading of my book Going Alone. Today, it’s chapter five, The Anxiety ...

This count up of days is more accurately a count down of remaining good days. But time has nearly always been important to me. That...

The coffee was slow to kick in this morning, which is no big deal as it’s Friday and get to start work a half hour later than usual....

Moving quick this morning, I’ve got somewhere to go—working from the office in fact, a real treat these days. No, I’m not one for working...

It’s the first day of winter and today’s swim was a very cold and dark one. My last meeting of the afternoon finished late, and after it...

Life floored me a little yesterday when, after my swim, I met a broken seagull all alone on the sand, dragging a bloody wing across the...

I took the afternoon off work today to see my doctor, which left time for arrival at the beach about an hour ahead of schedule. Not much...

My life is "done" now when I complete these videos each morning. It’s interesting to me how ending these daily videos with the words “my...

Some Mondays… It takes effort sometimes for me to tackle a Monday in the way it deserves, or at least the in the way I choose to think a...

If you look closely you can see two figures by the water as I run towards the sea. They are a pair of teenage girls who’d been ...

I’ve added a new principal to The Good Life creed, that of Family, and the sub-principle of Catalyst. These were part and parcel of the...

Three days missed… And now, even a relatively warm winter day like today feels quite cold. Just last week I was coming here in the wind...

No swim again yesterday. Duty called. And I, always, heed my duty. I think I’d have made a pretty good soldier, as I respond to duty with...