Month: August 2023

How to Stay Healthy With a Busy Work Schedule

Life seems to get busier and busier, leaving us figuring out how to squeeze everything in. These days, you can get anything you possibly need online, adding some convenience to your world and helping you avoid the stores that you just don’t have time to visit. We stay busy, which sometimes makes it challenging to […]

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Wine Reviews: Mini Round-Up for August 28, 2023

I taste a bunch-o-wine (technical term for more than most people). So each week, I share some of my wine reviews (mostly from samples) and tasting notes in a “mini-review” format. They are meant to be quirky, fun, and (mostly) easily-digestible reviews of (mostly) currently available wines (click here for the skinny on how to read… […]

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Podcast #922: For Whom the Bell Tolls

Ernest Hemingway’s classic novel, For Whom the Bell Tolls, is often designated as one of the greatest books about war ever written and has appeared on the Marine Corps recommended reading list. Today on the show, I unpack For Whom the Bell Tolls with Hemingway scholar Mark Cirino. We discuss the background of the novel, […]

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Sunday Firesides: No Bad Feelings

We typically sort feelings into two categories: the good (calm, contentment, lightness, elation) and the bad (anxiety, shame, disappointment, grief). Believing that the good help happiness and the bad hinder it, we cling to the former and avoid, ward off, and theraputize the latter. Yet, while feelings can be lighter or heavier, easier or harder, […]

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