In October 2024, I unknowingly embarked on what became a historic run of perfect laundry performances. Around December 2024, months into this streak, I noticed that I had not lost a single sock for months (the October 2024 start date… Continue reading

From ages 7-11 I spent a lot of time on the weekends in gymnasiums throughout Minnesota. Every weekend I would show up to train and test myself against other Minnesota youth. We would compete all day and I would come… Continue reading

I do not typically think of my death as an imminent possibility. It is something that will happen years and decades down the road once I have lived a full, long life. I am young and have so much to… Continue reading

One of my goals in life is to create my own ultramarathon. The more I am surrounded by the people and community at these events the more I fall in love with the sport. While I know I will never… Continue reading

On January, 1st this year I started using The Daily Stoic Journal, by Ryan Holiday. It is a guided journal that has a prompt every day with space to write a morning and evening reflection. Each reflection is nine lines… Continue reading

Mail does not get the appreciation it deserves. The international mail system is a marvelous creation. The fact that we can send physical letters or packages that will arrive around the world in an expedient manner is remarkable. For necessary… Continue reading

Someday, I would love to write a book. I think I would prefer to write fiction. The process of writing a book seems like an overwhelming laborious task. Sometimes after finishing a book I will think how astounding it is… Continue reading

Every fourth of July my family gets a cabin up north in Minnesota. About 15 of us all stay in a big house, eat more food than we probably should, hang out at the lake, and play buck euchre.  For… Continue reading

One of my goals in life is to have my own personal library. I want a vast collection of books that spans every genre and topic. My library will have its own storage system that categorizes every book. Books will… Continue reading

As a young lad, I often conceptualized my own brain/mind/consciousness as a simple conversation between two people. In every situation, I worked through my thoughts and choices through this internal dialogue. These two people did not have any shape, ideology,… Continue reading