Originally posted on How to be Unsuccessful:
When I was a junior in high school, I was hospitalized for depression. This followed two previous hospitalizations for anorexia when I was younger. I was placed in the Adolescent Unit of the hospital, which contained mostly troubled kids from foster families. They could not understand why I…
This year I started out with too many New Year’s Resolutions, so I had to do something equivalent to an upgrade to eliminate the bugs. Version NYR2020.1, you might say. This version focuses on discipline in 3 areas: physical activity most days of the week going to the grocery store 2x/week cooking most days of […]
A few years ago I wrote a blog post about praying for sports. Here is the revised version of the prayer from that post: Dear God, please let my team and my opponents remain injury-free, be kind to themselves, their partners, and the opponents, and if at all possible, to win. I don’t think God […]
I don’t know about you, but I’m getting tired of requests to rate my experience with 5 stars on every single thing I do. I’ve already had 2 requests today, and it’s only 2 pm. So there could be more forthcoming. My first one started with a call this morning asking me to pre-register for […]
I wrote my first blog post on September 24, 2013. At that time, my goals were to take some preliminary steps towards writing a book. Like writing stuff down and letting people read it. Because I had never written anything about myself that I thought was good enough to share. I figured blogging could be […]
