My friend John, who was a guest on one of the first episodes of the Better Me Podcast, teaches at Virginia Tech. For awhile he…
Catching Up With Better Me
I launched this blog in the Fall of 2017 and continued it through a very challenging bout of depression that started not quite a year…
Find the Simple Pleasures
It snowed this week. It’s the first snow of the season, which seems strange to me because there was still snow on the ground from…
Birds In My House
When we bought our current house 11 years ago, we noticed a few quirky things that the previous owners had done. It wasn’t until we…
Is This Who I Am?
I’m doing a short meditation course that includes conversations between Dan Harris and the well-known psychologist Dr. Kelly McGonigal through the Ten Percent Happier app.…
Using the Things That Motivate Me
During my conversation with Todd Henry for the latest episode of the Better Me Podcast, we discussed his new book The Motivation Code. To get…
The Goldilocks Spot
This is not a golf related blog post, I promise, but I’m finishing up reading Zen Golf by Dr. Joseph Parent and a paragraph late…
It Ran Right Past You
The other day I was out for a walk with my dog. She’s part beagle so there’s a lot of stopping to sniff. On this…
Motivation? What Motivation?
Recently I had a really bad start to my day. I’m not going to go into the details, but let’s just say that it was…
The Benefits of Celebrating Wins
Last week my wife and I went golfing at a nearby course that has only 12 holes (the other six were paved over for some…
