A Bachelors Blog

  I've had a pretty rough year and a half. The new year has held promise but out of the blue my life has gone from secure and stable to a giant question mark on pretty much all levels of my life.    I'm not a 'live in the moment' kind of guy. I'm happiest with routines and a sense of safety and security.  I plan, weeks and months and years into the future and I love when the plans work out, it's comforting. I often think too much about a situation that I'm constantly reminding myself that I have exactly zero power to influence or control. I spend a lot of time with the internal monologue 'just relax, man. Whatever happens, happens.'    ... And then I spend another half an hour trying to see all the angles, plan and prepare for every possible outcome, girding myself for the worst, yet hoping for the best.    It's exhausting.    These past couple of weeks have been weird for me but I'm really focused on the simple moments. When my brain de...

You ever have one of those nights where you have a bad dream and it wakes you up only to keep you awake?  Yeaaaah well it's after 4 am and 3 hours of sleep/trying to sleep have left my brain thinking too much.    It's time to write!  I haven't really said much about my Dog. Ahhhhh, where to begin?  This is Moxie! I rescued her just over a year ago at Christmas time. She had had a bit of a rough life prior to my adopting her. A lot of neglect and abuse left her roaming free in the country side for weeks in the cold, eventually ending with her capture as well as amputating the toes on her front paw, it's the paw I adroitly refer to as her communicating paw.  I call it that because she uses it to smack my phone out of my hands when she wants my attention. We communicate a lot.    This picture is a recent decent. 90 lbs and 4 years old, still thinks and acts like a lap puppy.    I had been looking around for a dog online and I had seen the p...