Curating for Happiness
Soon after my first kid was born, I found myself watching a lot of youtube. He was up all hours of the night, and I'd be up with him, trying…
Gun Shy
Out for a mountain bike ride today, and I could tell I was gun shy after my most recent crash. Rode a little slower, and I felt myself reaching for…
The Price
This morning I took my son to the library, one of our last chances to get out on a weekday before school starts. We went to a different branch this…
Spectrum of Suffering
-Or how I learned to deal with lifestyle inflation- Like every FI blogger and their mother, I submitted something for JL Collins' new book project called Pathfinders. Because hey, on…
Late night stroll
Wrote this last year while I was still on the job. Thought it was interesting, figured I'd put it up here: The four of us walking in this dark corn…
Work Bitch
As is becoming disturbingly regular, I had grand designs for a deep post about whatever. Knee deep in SAHD life for a week more, I backburnered that shit and settled…
SAHD: Fail
I'm two weeks away from leaving my position as full time stay at home dad. How did that happen? Well, essentially my wife fired me. Sort of. And I'm extremely…
The Art of Not Doing Shit
As I mentioned previously, one of the first things I wanted to do upon FIREing was Naval Ravikant's Art of Doing Nothing. This is 60 days straight of one hour…
May Update
I was 600 words deep in philosophical post where I mused about something serious or whatever, and my 18 month old daughter kept walking over and hitting the right arrow…
Long Hair and Childcare
Well it's been over two weeks since I've last updated this thing, which I guess is about a billion years in the world of the Internets. And holy shit, I…