Trying to Make 188.2 Billion Slightly More Comprehensible According to a recent Forbes article, Jeff Bezos's personal net worth reached as high as $188.2 billion as of July 9, 2020. Now, Amazon stock took a little bit of hit today so it’s probably down from that number. However, I wanted…

Forty-five thousand words into the story, my protagonist sits down at a table across from the two main antagonists of the story, his ex-wife and her new husband. This protagonist, a middle-aged Uber driver who left the corporate world after a string of life-altering events, is (not surprisingly) based on…

Thirty minutes ago, I woke up, shut off my alarm, turned on my favorite morning radio show, checked my bank balance, and began doom-scrolling social media. Ten minutes into my doom-scroll, I realized the mood to start my day was veering toward the negative. Everything sucks. The world sucks. Why…

I have been scrubbing the depths of my brain trying to come up with something to write about. It has been months since I wrote anything on this blog…or my Medium page…or my pseudonym Medium page…or the rough draft of my novel…or a long social media post…or something on one…

Ronin staggered to the other side of his hotel room to grab a beer from the fridge. Cracking it, he assessed the situation. The room was a mess. Empty beer bottles were everywhere. At some point during the night, they spilled a bag of potato chips on the floor and…

Why I Got Back Out There It’s tough for me to pinpoint exactly what the final motivation was for me to start running again. There was the night I broke a tooth in half biting a pretzel. I laid on the couch thinking “Is this the person I am? The…

This is about running…but it’s also not about running “I’m talking about running…but I’m also not talking about running.” ~ Chris Bennett, Nike Run Coach I’ve run 22 different guided runs on the Nike Run Club app since I started running again and I’ve heard this phrase from Coach Bennett…

And a lot of other days during the past week It has been a very good week plus of running for me. Not so much a good week of writing, however. I admit I’ve been super stressed about earning money for the past week, so I was working 12+ hour…

“Every new run is your most important run because it’s the run you are doing now.” — Chris Bennett, Nike Running Global Head Coach. I believe this is a direct quote from the Nike Running Club coach. If not it’s a very close paraphrasing. And it something I’m beginning to…