A month ago I left my job. I thought this was going to give me unprecedented time to write. But this is the first blog post I’ve written since then. My only post in February was an excerpt from my weight loss book that I had written earlier.
Sometimes in life we fall down, go astray, and make mistakes. Nobody is perfect. And part of self-improvement is examining things we’ve done wrong. The important thing here is to avoid doing this out of guilt, self-hatred, or to punish ourselves. Rather, it’s so we can learn how to better handle similar situations in the future.
So what happened?
Well, I spent the last month in rural Tennessee, in the house my wife inherited from her brother who passed away last year. Cleaning out the house has been a slow process, as her brother had a lot of hobbies that involved collecting lots of stuff, and we aren’t quite sure what to do with all of it.… Read more