• Best Things Today Examples

    I wanted to give some examples of what my daily writing practice is like. At the end of each day I sit down and write about the three best things of that particular day. This is something I started way back in 2017 (what feels like one hundred years ago) when looking for a clean slate for a new year. It’s evolved into my single best mental health support strategy, keeping me grounded and focused on the things that matter. Surprisingly, the things that matter are often very small things – focusing on the really good cup of coffee, a silly thing a squirrel is doing, the way the air…

  • My Substack Newsletter

    Hello friends, my long term project, loosely called Finding Joy in the Middle aka “My Best Things List” is available on Substack as a newsletter. I’ll share some specific posts to give you a taste for what kinds of writing I do there. Meanwhile, I invite you to join the list, which is free (but you can choose to pay with a subscription, which is always appreciated and helps fund my wild search for joy and other writing and artistic pursuits.) What you get with my newsletter is a daily email with my “list” for the day (generally I write these at the very end of my day in the…