I’m following the Action for Happiness monthly focus on optimism, with an almost daily post in response to their prompts.Today’s prompt was: “Thank yourself for achieving the things you often...

It’s your serve. You have strong serves. You know if you execute the serve well, your opponent might miss. You plan your serve. You really whip the serve in. So far so good. Now you watch to see if…

Flow is characterised by intense concentration, a reduced awareness of ourselves, and sometimes a changed sense of time. When we're not looking for happiness, sometimes it finds us. The post Why…

i am pretty strong for a normie, and pretty weak for consistent lifters. that puts me in an odd spot when looking at new workout programs.i did bullmastiff to great success, hitting PRs in september…

Meditation is a practice of self-awareness: a direct inquiry into how experience is organized before we ever begin to reflect on it. The objective of meditation is to become aware of how your…

I’m writing these lines somewhere high above the ground, I don’t even know how many kilometers. I always wanted to say that. I’m on the Barcelona-Istanbul flight right now,…

Last time I wrote about this topic, I buried the point inside a long article. So I'm going to spell it out more clearly. Many people on Carnivore and other low carb diets have low serum…

Un traitement expérimental existe pour traiter le syndrome des jambes sans repos (SJSR ou RLS pour restless legs syndrome). Il porte le nom de neurostimulation électrique transcutanée, abrégé en TENS…

What Nucleus actually is, from its CTO: a cheek-swab whole genome test (30x short-read) that reports your risk for 2,000+ diseases and doubles as a carrier screen, plus couple and IVF embryo results.…

Here’s an update on my health, at Day 68 in hospital.

I’ve been feeling short of patience and quick to frustration lately. I’m rushing from one responsibility to the next, never able to be calm or relaxed. Along with these feelings, is heightened…

Ripping the band-aid off a topic I’ve avoided writing about directly. But I want to share my experience. Three jewels, three marks, six nails & so forth: how I keep it together when things are…

My second marathon, Munich 2026: the plan lasted six kilometres, a new goal appeared at km 30 and vanished at km 40. Why I hit the wall with a low heart rate.

What you can expect when scheduling your first appointment with me.

I was diagnosed with squamous cell carcinoma in my mouth in May 2026. Here are some things I learned based on that experience so far. You need to be doggedly persistent on scheduling things. Yes this…

A patient sends a message to their clinician instead of scheduling an appointment.No driving. No waiting room. No taking half a day off work.For someone managing a chronic illness, that's a…

If you've read this blog enough, you're probably aware that I prefer to commute by bike, but can't always for a variety of reasons. Some of these are practicalities in the Quad Cities…

Welcome to the fifth-year anniversary of me trying to get into Western States 100! Yes, it’s already been that long. What started in 2021, when I was fresh off the pandemic and eager to…

Mine does, many times every season. The music has changed over the years (I’m now in my 9th decade: 81 years), naturally, but it’s still an inspiring song! I first hit on this singing body idea one…

14 Oct 2026 "The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change." – Carl Jung Grow (2016), Gosia 關於「放下」，已有太多論述。…

14 Oct 2026 "The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change." – Carl Jung Grow (2016), Gosia Much has been written about letting go. We are encouraged to let go of…

2027 HIGHWAY TO HELL ULTRACYCLE – 300km (200 miles) to the Gates of Hell, Turkmenistan COME SUFFER WITH US! Just kidding, kinda. This event, and this trip, wil change your life. It’s the…

You enter a restaurant and choose the chair facing the door. Someone drops a glass behind you, and your body reacts before you know what happened. At night, a small sound wakes you immediately. When…

For 11 years I refused to run the Munich Marathon. This year I signed up to pace a friend to a PB. Then she woke up sick on race morning, and I ran alone.

I just feel so alone. And I don't know how to extract myself from this void I crawled into. A void where life is just flat, deflated, persistent in its meaninglessness. And there's no spark.…

In the last 36 hours I've driven the 1200-mile round trip to visit my friends at Proliance Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine in Issaquah, and I now have a pretty good sense of what to expect…

This morning I did not want to get out of bed. Let alone to go to the gym and get beat up. But I did. I learned some fun techniques that I enjoyed drilling, and then had a fun five rolls. All in all…

Spouse was away. The boys are happy doing their own thing. That means I could be out again at the weekend for another 200. The 2025 - 2026 audax season ends in October so most likely this will was…

It’s a constant refrain in current society that we spend way too much time being distracted, by new shiny things, by irritations stemming from disruptiveness to our plans, and by […] The post…

I have a bench overlooking the Hudson River, just a stone’s throw from my apartment in New York City. It’s nothing particularly special, just a bench beside the water. But over the years, it’s become…

Tags: #EbikeTraining, #AgeAndEndurance, #Sarcopenia, #TourFit2027, #DataDriven Two years ago, I learned by experience how not to lose weight. I followed a generic "calorie deficit" plan. The scale…

WARNING Bipolar disorder is a serious mental health condition. This article is not meant to mock or laugh at this disorder, but merely use its name and some of its symptoms to convey a message. Never…

A post for all the wonderful brand new yoga teachers out there, with advice from a teacher who’s been leading classes since 2013.

Agarikon is a very special and rare fungus that grows on old conifers and can live for 60 to 70 years. You may have heard about agarikon as an ancient medicinal mushroom. It is widely touted as a…

Here are the good things that have happened to me in the last 3 months. Pharmaceuticals Around 2 months ago, I learned that there is actually One Weird Trick to eliminate all my personal addictions…

I received a letter informing me that I'm perimenopausal. Not a phone call. Not a conversation. A letter. I'd been to the breast pain clinic, where everything was thankfully fine. A few weeks later,…

Mental health issues have exploded in the last decade for pre-teens and early teens because of overprotection in the physical world and underprotection in the digital world. In The Anxious…

My old friend Bex asked me recently about meralgia paresthetica, a common thigh-nerve predicament: “Super frustrating that it seems like such a common problem, but there’s basically no real info or…

working in an isolated role and talking to people

It kinda is my job right now, since we’re designing the Jackalope V2 and I need a lot of test miles on V1 for data. I’ve now put over 350 miles on Jackie the Jackalope (V1). Averaging my…

i'm embarrassed of my screen time. so much so that i've developed a strategy to reduce it. but first, some proof that my screen time is obscene: the worst part isn't the 6h average. it's all the time…

Last week we published an article “The Latest Figures Show the Alarming Depth of the NZ Health Crisis” in which we reported a massive 33% rise in serious conditions at NZ EDs since the use of Covid…

The leaves say: It's time for Coffeeneuring! What's the secret to our success? I say it's the autumn appeal of low-key two-wheeled rides on bikes, coffee and fall-inspired drinks with friends, a goal…

Long range planning is underway for a extra fast hardtail mountain bike (MTB-LT32/29) that should be completed in the spring. Similar to the Corsair, it will have a 686mm BCD tire on the front rim.…

I don’t mean to make light of dementia. Far from it. I’ve watched too many friends fall victim to this Continue reading →

I don’t feel happy I hate being alive Everything I do is just prolonging my suffering I don’t know how to reach out without feeling like I’ll make things worse I feel like I’m constantly gasping and…