The first book of 2026 is a pretty good indication of what’s occupying my mind. This book by Emily Bennington is wonderful whether you’re familiar with The Course in Miracles or not, but even a small familiarity might be a bit helpful. Here’s how this book helped me: a reminder…

State of the Blogger and not of the Blog because I think the state of the Blog is pretty apparent. I’d summarise my current state as letting go but not giving up. I just realised that if I’m ever going to move this ship forward I have to let go…

I’ve been thinking a lot lately how some people live in such more interesting worlds than I do. They see ghosts, see the future, can talk to spirits, guides, angels. And they do these things so convincingly. I live in a world where when I smell fresh cut grass I…

My sixth Big Sur Marathon and tenth marathon is all wrapped up. Didn’t really train, but I did get those two long runs in. They did enough-I finished under the 6 hour mark. Wasn’t my worst marathon but it was my worst Big Sur, as far as time. The run/walk,…

I had to delete a few posts because I realized I wanted to really try to focus on finding the prettier side of things. It’s hard and I’m not there yet. Target announcing they were backing down on DEI was confusing, sad, frustrating and one of the posts I deleted…

As we get going here, I might as well introduce the main players. I’ll do reverse order. This is Linus. He is 6 months old and at the moment I’m concerned by fast breathing because I left him unattended for the 40 minutes I spent trying to figure out how…

Oh thank God. This one is for posterity-I think it took me close to 40 minutes to figure out how to edit this first post. This isn’t my first blog, probably my fourth or fifth (I haven’t been counting) and I don’t even think it’s my first blog on WordPress,…