Checking in for July for my "Designing a Well-Lived Life" blogging. This is about making small changes during the year to make larger changes.

• Focus on health (exercise, eating, stress): I've been still working on getting my health up-to-snuff. It's been challenging for me because I'm tired more often than …

This week marks my 12/12 chemo treatment. This is a huge milestone for me. My major symptoms are a mild case of neuropathy, lowered platelet count, potassium that's a bit out of whack, and a lot of tiredness. Overall I'm OK, but I'm feeling slightly burned out. This is …

Yesterday I spilled almost an entire glass of water on my computer.

I was getting ready for the work day in the basement. I was already a little surly about the morning because the temperatures were making it so that I would have had less than an hour outside on …

I took today off instead of taking the July Fourth holiday off. I'm sitting here with my coffee and water and the computer in front of me. I'm awake earlier than I have been for the past few weeks. It's quiet and peaceful. Just the sound of the Thinkpad's awesome …

I've been feeling really compressed lately. My schedule feels like it's been overtaken with appointments, commitments, and other assorted things that are vying for my time. That is also coupled with my cancer treatments, which have made me pretty tired. So it's taken a lot of effort to try to …