a ticket to ride

a ticket to ride

I have a long running weakness for Russian literature. Maybe not all of Russian literature, just three pillars; Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, and Solzhenitsyn. Yes, I was crazy enough in the day to devour fifteen hundred pages of War and Peace and Brothers Karamazov in a week...
yes

yes

Yes. Yes is the word we should be using very often, unfortunatelly, it too often gets smothered by a hesitant maybe.  Maybe.  Oh, that would be nice. Maybe, yes. It would be so lovely. If only. Just imagine how my life would change. Someday. One day....
be kind

be kind

Be kind to yourself is an often under utilized tool for self improvement. I know, because I have been guilt over the years of not treating myself with the level of respect I should. I sometimes forget or my life spins out of its axis. When you watch a lot of...
let’s talk dopamine

let’s talk dopamine

It’s time we talk about dopamine and in case you don’t know we have a big problem on our hands. Canada recently legalized pot, which might not make it any easier for those who are already most vulnerable, and without any doubt cocaine and ecstasy will continue...
yeah, I know

yeah, I know

Yeah, I know. You’ve been here before, and yeah, I know it will never work. I mean, you’ve tried and tried, time and time again, and failed, only to find yourself right here, exactly where you were before. It seems that in life nothing ever truly changes. Except maybe...
live the life you’ve got

live the life you’ve got

Live the life you’ve got and not the one you think you’ve been promised. Life fully. Take what you’ve go and do something with it. The great lie we believed sometime in the past is that happiness or success belongs to special people. We like to identify the outliers,...