The other day I signed up for a 10 day meditation class/retreat/experience. Way back when I was in LA a friend of mine raved about this particular practice, Vipassana. I meant to go, but ten days was a lot to spare and I didn’t get around to it. Since then I think of doing it…

  If there’s something I’m known for amongst friends and acquaintances, it’s that I tend to do things to extremes. I can’t just do speed dating, I have to work my way to the top of the pickup food chain. Instead of moving in to a smaller house, or even a big RV, I buy…

I got a last minute email from one of the guys in the Austin Society, a local pick up group, saying that a speaker had canceled and they were looking for someone to fill in. Awesome. I love public speaking and have actually been meaning to do more of it (in fact, I’m thinking about…

I had a smug outlook on life. I was twenty years old and other than my ineptitude with women, things were good. I had my own house and enough money that I never thought about whether or not I could afford something. I was making my money gambling, which I considered to be quite an…

I picked my RV up from the dealership. My axle was reportedly broken, and, as far as I could tell, it was now fixed. Good. The cost was over a thousand bucks, money which I forked over, wishing the whole time I didn’t have to. A few weeks prior I was at an airport, desperate…

During the past two weeks I’ve waffled back and forth on whether or not to continue to posting daily. Half the time I think it’s a great idea, and the other half I’m checking the calendar to see how many more days of this bedtime-extending hell I have left. Some pros and cons for the…

I’d managed to go twenty something years without ever actually dancing, but it was becoming increasingly clear that my streak was going to end tonight. I’d always envied people who could dance. They made it look so easy and fun, which was how it was when I danced in the mirror, but the thought of…

I’m tired and not particularly inspired to write today (which I guess occasionally comes with the territory of writing every day), so this is a short one. When you travel with someone for a long period of time, you constantly find yourselves waiting in a lot of lines, sitting next to each other on a…

I couldn’t believe that it was already time for dinner. Despite the fact that it was almost one hundred degrees in my RV, the kind of heat that ensures that my shirt is permanently damp, the time had flown by. Four hours had passed since I last consciously checked the time.Still, as hungry as I…

Thanks to my Sony ebook reader I’ve been reading a lot lately. I’ve been fortunate to have been recommended great books, so now I’ll pass along the favor and recommend them to you. Gang Leader for a Day I first heard of Sudhir Venkatesh’s work when I read Freakonomics. The gist of it is that…