I've been practicing mindfulness for a while now. I'm not great at it, but I've done OK with it. When I had a kidney stone flare up rather than try to fight it I relaxed into the moment of excruciating pain and sat with it. Most times we try to …

I've been doing more decluttering in our house. This has been a slow process, but I've found it pretty helpful to help me focus on the things that I want to be part of my life. Nothing is immune from the decluttering. At the moment I've been looking through my …

We got the results of my PET scan from last week. I have a saying about medical results now: "It's never cake", meaning that the likelihood of some positive news is unlikely. Well, the latest results bear this out. The cancer in my rectum seems to be shrinking but the …

I've been thinking a lot lately (usually in the early morning hours after Pixel gets me up for her 4-5am feeding, and I can't get back to sleep, or just before I go to bed) about how my life is going and what things I want to focus on in …

Every so often (or "more often than not" for some months) I'll wake up on Friday thinking it's Saturday. This is what I've termed "shitty Saturday". Now, that doesn't mean that the day is necessarily shot, but it means that I need to work extra hard to not get sidelined …