Category: Life
Lifestyle, People, Family, Relationships, Parenting, and Introspection according to how life be lifing.
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Today, I needed to be reminded that I can’t rely on motivation. The power to get things done is in performing habits See on Pinterest
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I’m angry. Very, very angry. But I’m not violent. Today, I drove to South Carolina for a medical appointment that involved needles, lidocaine, epideral steroid, and a herniated vertibral disk. Don’t gasp. The steroid is a piece of cake in comparison to the radiofrequency ablation I used to get: 3 needles, 3 times as much…
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When one of the kids asks me to explain irony: When someone with Geico auto insurance has a claim, Geico sends an inspector to assess the damage and estimate the repair cost. These inspectors drive Geico branded white sedans Well, one Thursday morning in Georgia I saw one of those Geico branded sedans run a…
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To all my courteous friends be your wallets so kind to briskly pour into my cup and buy every book i write i want few things more in life than streams of adulation but i seek to pad my pockets nigh and spare meine Kinder Mississippi education
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This is a flashback to a FB post I made 16 Sep 2016 when I was active duty. I had been offered a more technical job in another unit. There were a lot of feels, but mostly relief. I was not happy being in charge of almost 20 other adults. In 2016, I wasn’t happy…
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The kids were not visibly sad when I let them go with their mom.
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The kids give me life. It would be so awesome if they could have a conversation with me. It’s so many years from now when they’ll understand all of this visitation and short phone calls. I’m not a patient man. I have to slowly watch the hours and days and weeks go by until my…
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I don’t have much to say except that it would be nice to have more time in the day In the military, I learned the value of time, but I seem to have resisted budgeting as well as I have money I recall calling time a currency waaay before that Timberlake movie I called time…
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Sometimes, I have some really, really Animal Kingdom thoughts. Today while swimming in morbid thoughts, I wondered if we put too much effort into separating ourselves from other animals. Not Superior I don’t think we’re Superior. In fact, based on our intentional failure to adapt in areas of human relations, natural resources control, and weeding…
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I get to talk to the children on Sunday nights before bedtime. The last 4 calls, only my daughter (3) answers the phone during the designated window of time their mother turns on the phone. She talks really well, but on the phone I can understand a few words at a time. I can understand…
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It’s one of those days where I don’t want to leave the bed. I don’t have time for it though. In fact, I’m in a deficit of time. Habits and Motivation Some might say I’m “not feeling motivated”. But I’ve well-established that in these moments habits have to be the engine the pushes you through…