Like many Americans, I have gone bankrupt because of our for-profit health insurance system. Unlike most Americans, I am leaving the system altogether, and coming to Costa Rica. International moves are expensive, but the cost of repatriation dwarfs the risk of becoming financially crippled for simply getting sick. My daughter has a pre-existing condition. She is four years old. There is a cyst on [...]
Portland is a pretty mossy place. Moss needs three things to grow in abundance: Lots of water Little sunshine No movement As a city, and an ecology, Portland is filled with abundance. Things don’t just grow here; they proliferate here. With that abundant proliferation, there is little incentive to chase after life lustily, because it [...]
Accidents happen. And in America, they bankrupt you. I had an accident on Sunday. Totally predictable, run of the mill accident. Running at top speed, in a padded gymnastics facility, I pulled off a long kong (diving jump with my feet behind me) over a 5-foot tall vault. The landing was not glamorous; I turned [...]
Today I went out for a beer with a box of my old notebooks. The box down center, not the four shelves behind it; the corpus and I have a date next month for Collage, when I cull whats worth keeping from a decades worth of shopping lists and examination notes. What I found this [...]
Breathing in, I know I am breathing in. Breathing out, I know I am breathing out. Breathing in, I dwell in the present moment. Breathing out, I know this is a wonderful moment. I spent some time with this meditation this morning, and I realized that I tend to spend my time wayyyyyy [...]
I am squashing my ability to accomplish by trying to accomplish everything alone. I am sitting in an empty television studio, that I have access to today, by myself. Symbolically, I cannot record. I had a basic idea of how to do it; I brought one DVD and a seven minute juggling act, and thought [...]
One of the peculiar aftereffects of The Master Cleanse is how MUCH of your yuck gets cleared away. And I’m not just talking about physical and intestinal yuck; I’m talking psychological yuck. I’m now cruising into Day 5 of maple-lemonade-cayenne potion as my only sustenance. Before I started on Monday, I took a 2-day long [...]
Since my financial world got rocked last year (like so many other people) I've been paying extra special close attention to ways I can change my money vibe, and prep for a dynamite, kickass year in 2011. The thing that's been standing out the most, out of everything I've been reading: give money away. It [...]
Today, I'm sad. Today I finally accepted the fact that Danger Man is retired. I've been denying it, at least partially, for some time. But today, it hit me. I was going to go to Supercon, another superhero-themed pub crawl, like the one where Danger Man made his public debut. I couldn't think of anything [...]
Im up late, and I cant sleep, and its a perfect time for worrying about the future. I've got a habit of learning how to be moderately good at lots of new things. This is keeping me from working in a field where I can really excel, and I'm counting the years adding up (33 [...]