Most of my concerns are petty. Pool hours Interruptions to my daily routine Traffic Irritating conversations Workouts Chores Dogs Weather My fitness, health, aches and pains Painting Is this what my life is today? I used to think my life was sooooo important. I was concerned with being a good husband, a good stepfather, a…
Author: Steve Ainslie
Time Lapse
Yesterday, for the first time since I injured my knee, I woke up early, walked the dog and worked out. Later I went swimming, walked the dog again, baked in the sun, caught up with two friends, and eventually wrapped up the day icing my knee while streaming a TV show. It felt great to…
Goodbye Again
My wife visited me in a dream last night. She was driving her car and dropping me off somewhere. She was smiling her huge toothy grin with her eyes were shining brightly and mischievously. In my dream she hadn’t aged a day from the time we first met. Whenever I think of her, I think…
Swooning For Sweden
Lars Trägårdh was on the Solo Podcast today to discuss the book he co-authored, The Swedish Theory of Love. Here’s what the Univivesity of Washington Press wrote about the book: “…Henrik Berggren and Lars Trägårdh argue that the long-standing view of Sweden’s welfare state as the result of socialist collectivism is flawed. While social values…
Embracing Errors
Man, do I hate making mistakes – and I make a lot of them. From putting my foot in my mouth, to giving away everything I owned to live permanently in the wilderness (lasted 2 months), to pushing too hard during workouts resulting in injuring myself, to just doing the wrong thing I have innumerable…
Incommunicado
I just removed the Contact page on my site. I did this with comments a few years ago. After 850+ posts over 6 years, very few people contact me via my blog anymore. And by very few – I mean three people have in the past 4 years. Those three people all know me. They…
Not Star Struck
The host of the Solo Podcast will be in my city next week to host a live podcast during a Festival. In addition to him, several other listeners from the podcast who are my fellow forum members are joining him. Since he’s based in Denver, this would be my best opportunity to meet him and…
Easing Back Into It
My knee felt so much better this morning that I was able to take Wiggles on two long walks with no problems for the first time in 5 days. I was tempted to workout (wearing a knee brace) and hit the pool afterward, but I am forcing myself instead to do nothing physical. I know…
No Pressure
It will be great to get back to my regular daily routine soon of working out, swimming, dog walking and doing stuff. As much as I miss it, I will be making some changes. As I mentioned in an earlier post, I am cutting back the volume of physical exercise I’ve been doing in an…
Chocolate Suicide
I haven’t eaten any junk since I shared a dessert at a dinner date several months ago. Both the date and the dessert were mediocre, at best. But after four days of forced inactivity due to my knee injury, last night I decided to treat myself to dessert. I knew having a gorge fest of…