After a break-up two weeks back, and then some additional stress from work travel plus a sick donkey, I've been finding myself particularly vulnerable to outside emotions barging in and causing disturbances.

All week, I've found myself scooting a few extra inches away f...

I wish every physician would spend 10 minutes to watch this summary by Dr David Kaufman. Compassionate yet totally no nonsense. 

Today is international Women's Day. And in honor of all the women in my life who continue to blow me away with their courage and tenacity, I'd love to share this story about grit.

Last winter I was pulling out of the driveway when a mule deer heading up the hillsid...

As I round the bend to 32, I continue gaining perspective on how inadequate my reasoning skills were just ten or fifteen years ago. I lucked out with solid parenting, a very safe peer group, and unambitious risk-taking tenancies, so pulled through my youth relatively u...

I was woken up last night at 2 am by the sound of the donkey alarm. He has a particular hee-haw for when he thinks his sheep are in danger, and it's not the sort of racket you sleep through. I'd never heard it at night before, and woke up imagining sheep scattered and...

Today one of my sheep came down with some pretty nasty scours, and after driving myself crazy for a few hours researching, asking opinions, and making no headway with a diagnosis, I decided to take in a fecal sample. For such a simple transaction, it was an awful long...

This blog post was inspired by Alain De Botton's highly recommended Ted Talk

"So, what do you do?"

It's hands down the most common question we face in social settings. For many of us, it's also a question that sends our hearts into our throats.

My career has been derailed...

Though the words are my own, the following thought experiment is sourced from Don Miguel Ruiz's The Mastery of Love.

Imagine you are a visitor to another world populated by a people who for a thousand generations have lived with a painful skin disease. Th...

Can we talk about mornings? Mornings can be seriously awful.

I don't have a good scientific explanation for why mornings suck, so I'm usually stuck in bed analyzing what choice I made in the last few days that could've left me feeling so rotten.

Holy hell, my ankles feel...

by Max Ehrmann, (Latin: desired things)

Go placidly amid the noise and haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence. As far as possible, without surrender, be on good terms with all persons.

Speak your truth quietly and clearly; and listen to others, even to t...