This past week was a total, unmitigated failure in terms of short-term project goals, but I think time will show that in the long run it was not without use ( Read more... )

So, after one test day of my personal boot camp, I'm faced with having to re-evaluate some things. An hour of exercise, at least the way I was doing it, was a brutal endeavor that left me sore and listless. An hour of writing had me straining and panicking, by the end of it, and not in a good way, I think. An hour of reading was no big deal, but ( Read more... )

There are lots of things I want to do with this time, but there are a few I want to do every day (at least Monday through Friday)...either because they're important to the larger goals of this project or because they're habits I want to establish for life in general. There are also a couple of kind of non-negotiable things I'm going to have to do ( Read more... )

At a certain age (as many people that age do) I thought of myself as essentially an artist with a day-job. I didn't even really care who experienced my art or even knew I was making it, because I saw myself as the guy at the FRONT of that bucket brigade...the important thing was that I fill up as many pails of art as i could, and I'd worry about ( Read more... )