It’s become a ritual for me to take a personal inventory on my birthday. I’ve done it in 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, and 2017. If you follow me on social media and details of my personal and emotional life aren’t interesting to you, please feel free to skip this post. I’m in … Continue reading Birthday Inventory 2025
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So, it’s my birthday on Monday, which means I’m going to do a birthday inventory, as I do every year at this time. I try to do a comprehensive evaluation of where I am in life, what’s going well and what’s not. This year, Maj and I are travelling to Crete for a week-long trip, … Continue reading Birthday Inventory 2024
Today, October 14, is my birthday. I’m far from home, in Brussels, with my wife on a trip to celebrate our anniversary and my birthday. We had a long, exhausting flight from Montreal, got in yesterday evening, and dragged ourselves out for dinner and got to sleep at a reasonable hour. This morning, coffee and … Continue reading Birthday Inventory 2023
Today, July 18 2023, is the 20,000th day I’ve been on Earth. It feels like a big occasion. That big counter only turns over about once every 27 years or so. This 10K chunk — what the ancient Greeks called a myriad — is about as big a segment of life that I can conceive … Continue reading 20,000 Days