Do you have a personal mission statement? Do you have one for your family? If not, maybe February 2020 may be a good time to create them?
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A gym focusing on how movement makes you feel rather than how you look.
I recently heard about a gym that focuses on exercise for mental health rather than to change one's body composition. It's called Revocycle, and it's in Portland (surprise!) and was founded by Michael Hosking. Dr. Hosking suffered from severe, debilitating, mental illness for years. He tried drug after drug, and nothing helped. Eventually he started [...]
Some things just should not exist.
The chapstick ran out and I grabbed a back up that I received for Christmas. I put it on my lips eager to defeat the dry roughness I was currently experiencing. Moments later I tasted and smelled something sweet. I couldn't quite place it but I realized it was the chapstick. It turns out the [...]
Is the negative outcome you fear really that bad?
The cookie sheet was covered in chicken fat and marinade from a night of homemade chicken wings. Water was added to let them soak overnight and as I awoke in the morning it was time to get to cleaning. I brought the cookie sheet to the sink located across from the oven before realizing that [...]
A visit to Curacao.
I have written a number of posts recently about our visit to Bonaire. We spent the last few days of our trip visiting the neighboring island of Curacao, so I thought it fair to give a very brief synopsis here. It was only a few days and I wasn't in love with it, so I'm [...]
Teaching eachother to be good stewards through the lens of scuba diving.
I recently wrote about scuba diving in a place that makes it easy to dive on your own. My instinct would be that this type of diving would have more potential for damage to the reef from human visitation. I would have thought that dive guides would help ensure that divers are not kicking, touching, [...]
Misc. thoughts on traveling to Bonaire.
I recently spent about a week in Bonaire. I wrote about some preliminary information here, and about our experience diving here. In this post, I will share a few final thoughts and observations about our visit. There are lots of donkeys wandering the island. There are flamingos! Lots of them. How cool! There are lots [...]
Diving in Bonaire.
We recently went to Bonaire for the main purpose of scuba diving there. Here are a few thoughts on our experience, and I shared a few thoughts about the Island here. The reef is close to the shore and easily accessible on the west side of the island - something extremely rare for good diving. [...]
Traveling to Bonaire
Our recent trip started on a small island in the Caribbean. Bonaire is about 50 miles north of Venezuela and accessible via many commercial airlines and small planes that travel between Bonaire, Curacao, and Aruba. It's government is connected with the Netherlands in some complicated ways that I do not fully understand. (I think it [...]
Tech hack: email tracking
I just learned that if you put +addsomethinghere before the @ symbol in an email address, it will still go to your inbox. (I heard about this and other useful tips on this podcast interview with Noah Kagan). Why would you care? If you give your email address away, you could track whether the company [...]
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