10 Lessons in Wisdom: Reflections from My First 50 Years
Take your age and divide it by 2. Do you think you are a bit wiser than you were then? Have you learned any lessons since? I was pretty dumb at 25 years old but at the time, I felt like the most intelligent being on Planet Earth. Funny how that is, isn’t it? Two […]
The Ugly Part of a Life Transformation
“You’re famous in Alden lol.” This morning a Facebook Memory came up in my feed. “On This Day 6 Years Ago” Heather shared a photo with the words “You’re famous in Alden lol.” It was the first time I had ever been in any sort of media. I had been through hell. I was tossed […]
Rise and Give Thanks
A while ago I wrote a post that was about one of the dearest concepts that I hold in my heart. I couldn’t find a way to put into words how I felt so I used the analogy of stamping gratitude with my shoes as I move across the Earth. A dance of gratitude […]
Slivers
Where is this all going to end? A friend asked me that once. It seemed like such a simple question and you would think that I would have spent time considering the trajectory of the path that I was on. Maybe I didn’t want to think about it because I knew how things were escalating […]
My before and after photos are a scam- sorry :(
It had been an entire year of planning and not a day went by where I hadn’t thought about it at one point or another. I had played this day out in my head for an entire year. Anticipating it to be one of the most memorable days in my life and it did not […]
Plant-Stock 2016
Traveling back home from Plantstock 2016 I had the idea to jot down some thoughts and feelings about the amazing event we had just taken in. A sort of “post Plantstock report”, if you will. I also wanted to give the Esselstyn family a proper thank you for opening up their property to perfect strangers […]
Ain’t nobody got time for that…
When I was young my mom once told me that if you needed something done to ask the busiest person you know. Of course, I had no clue what that meant but somehow that has stuck in my mind for over 30 years. As I type the first few lines and start to gather thoughts […]
Liabilities and Assets
It’s been a few weeks since I have been able to actually sit down and write. I have been crazy busy getting ready for this marathon and it has been 100 percent of my focus. I finished the marathon, learned a few lessons, and have a couple stories about it. I had every intention of writing […]
The wall… Plant-based or not, we all need to hit it.
The other day I was walking down a hallway at work and the stage crew was moving things around in and out of the prop room. In the hallway there was a pretty impressive stone wall that was very realistic and had to be 20 feet long and 7 feet tall. It looked like it […]
Finding Loopholes in a Plant-Based Diet
I’ve been meaning to write about this topic for a while now. I was reminded of it after a conversation with Josh LaJaunie. Josh will never understand how much our conversations and interactions mean to me. For over 3 years I have felt like I have stumbled around to find how my body works on […]