what's in this email: What could have happened, did not happen and I could not feel more - close call. Learn your lessons. Friday June 12, 202623 days to my birthday back from the trip Greetings Thinkers, Back from the trip, slept in because I slept pretty bad on the trip, then had a "crisis" in the Morning Pages time today, and a slow morning before that which included catching up with Joe who happened to be home before going into work this afternoon. So here I am, approaching noon, writing...
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what's in this email: Thursday June 11, 202624 days to my birthday on a trip, Luray VA! Greetings Thinkers, The fabric softener has moved to my face. My upper lip. I keep raising it to smell it. The mouse poop has moved from the bottom drawer to the top of the counter. Little droppings in front of the microwave and little claw marks in the butter this morning. Duck has finally pooped. 3 times to my 1 bag on our walk this morning. We ran out of coffee, there was never salt. There was a hot tub...
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what's in this email: Wednesday June 10, 202625 days to my birthday on a trip, Luray VA! Greetings Thinkers, Waking up in a round house. But is it a wake up if you did not sleep?! Last night was rough. Have you ever been to a place that is SO THICK with air freshener and fabric softener, you feel you are SWIMMING IN IT? Drinking it, surrounded by it, swimming in it. For a person who is sensitive to smell, this can be a real nightmare. It hit us in the face as soon as we walked in. That kind...
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what's in this email: Tuesday June 7, 202626 days to my birthday road trip day! Greetings Thinkers, Leaving for a little trip today. Still have all the stuff to do, to be "ready" to leave. Yesterday did not go as expected thus I did not get done, what I was after getting done. In my line of work, sometimes I have to be ready on NO NOTICE to drop everything and go pick up a huge haul of pink Christmas stuff. It's the part of the line of work that goes with my love of getting stuff, dumpster...
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what's in this email: Monday June 6, 202627 days to my birthday Greetings Thinkers, a 54 in the count today. Like it. Monday, new week, if your weeks start on Mondays. Readying for a little trip. Leave tomorrow. Going away is always work. Extra work. I'm sore from that gym sesh from the day before. Didn't workout yesterday "because of it". Mostly recovered from being activated about that thing ... What to say to "put that in a nutshell"? That's what the subject line was about yesterday ("you...
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what's in this email: Sunday June 7, 2026 Greetings Thinkers, I have been feeling haven't been doing good enough for my health, my physical health. yesterday I went to the gym. the day before I did Move and Mind which used to be a daily part of my Morning Things. It means , first thing when I get up, I move my body and adjust my mind. some "little things" before I start my day. Used to include handstands every morning, which I did the day before too. The night before the day before that, I...
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what's in this email: Saturday June 6, 2026 Greetings Thinkers, Today I'm going to a 40th birthday party which will make me think some about my 40th birthday party which was the biggest party I have ever had for me since I was the milestone ages of 16, 18, and 21. I made 40 a big deal. Were you around for that? I made 30 a big deal too but not in a party way, in a reckon your life way. the readership was down which is really the openership. Just because someone opens the email does not mean...
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what's in this email: Friday June 5, 2026 Greetings Thinkers, Yesterday, a typo in the count AND when I had called out the count. The subj read 140 days when it was 150 days, and there's really no way I can fix that once I send it. Speaking of counts, as I was lamenting in my Morning Pages about my bad mood and starting to think that maybe it's less a mood and more an overall state of unhappiness...chapter, season.. I thought: maybe a Challenge would "fix" it. And then - OF COURSE that's what...
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what's in this email: Thursday June 4, 2026 Greetings Thinkers, Up early, not before the alarm. Dislike and rare. Going on a shopping sourcing trip today. Pennsylvania bound. I considered going yesterday and then didn't. How that indecision for on 9AM on a Wednesday played out. Another bad mood. In a weird mood, bad mood, what's the difference? And if there is no such thing as good or bad, or endings and beginnings, then I suppose it's nothing, it just is. But I don't know anyone enlightened...
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