11:43… break soon. Rest of the day, the most open of books. Input notes for client, may need […] | Continue reading
2-22-24 09:58 in office. Already a LOT of movement. Yesterday at winery client, need to upload notes. In […] | Continue reading
Stepping back, seeing Mike Madigan as a newly independent story and “brand”. Build content around, start from ZERO. […] | Continue reading
Looking at old vineyard and wine pictures, no surprise, putting time on my calendar to address wine projects. […] | Continue reading
I know what I’m to do, and I WILL execute. 07:46. Happy I got off the couch, decided […] | Continue reading
about to swim in coffee. President’s Day I think is today, right? Is that why the kids don’t […] | Continue reading
paragraph and room. So what does the writer do but stop, see all around the table – walls, […] | Continue reading
And now Feb comes to a certain close. Ugh…. 09:03…. Getting the FUCK out of this house today. […] | Continue reading
In the barrel room, 2018, lunchtime walk. Thinking about aims and projects, wine’s manuscript and everything entailed…. a […] | Continue reading
again but not grading papers, not telling the students to write this way – THIS IS HOW YOU […] | Continue reading
I want more of them The kind that stop me Make me realize place, sky Gaze look stun […] | Continue reading
08:59 up to rain. Nurse leaving well before 07:00 for her drive to work. Espresso being made, kids […] | Continue reading
12:58 back from a drive with Henry so he could nap. He enjoys a single dad spread of […] | Continue reading
Feeling strong and confident in my Stoic practice, and from the conversation I had with Uncle last night, […] | Continue reading
Venting. I have to … certain people and what they do. Why do I let them touch or […] | Continue reading
Seriously, how is it fucking three o’clock already? Parents arrived safely at the coast. Thinking about them, all […] | Continue reading
14:52….. 15:01. Got the mail, and realizing the office like I have before. MY quiet, peaceful space. No […] | Continue reading
Happiness and positivity, positive steps and language, outlook, and all as a weapon against any negativity. Even your […] | Continue reading
Meetings done. Another at 10:30. Focusing on the short term but not too short, not too tunneled. Asynchronous […] | Continue reading
At the car place, Freeman Toyota on Corby. Told I need new tires, nearing 50k miles. Fucking prop […] | Continue reading
The day erupts. Nurse and I get coffee she looks at me with those sweet eyes in the […] | Continue reading
09:03. Opening meeting closed, have some espresso on the desk with me, Nurse still here and we’ll go […] | Continue reading
2-10-24 08:03. Packed for trip, in the kitchen and grateful. In the shower looking up at the tile […] | Continue reading
15:30….. Call over. Yes another. This one with someone from wine’s world and business, industry. Not saying who, or at which winery, but one that has my attention. My attention is sharp at thi… | Continue reading
2-9-24 09:08 Morning meeting. “Opening meeting” the call it. Need to clean and clear this desk. Too much clutter, too much of way, way too much. Latte. Notes. Jack this morn… | Continue reading
Later in the day, putting self in professor mode. The way the Nurse is a nurse, I am a professor. I use that word humorously of course, but one of literature, the pen, page, expression … | Continue reading
Nice night and morning with the most radiant of Nurses. Today I come back to my condo absolutely, thoroughly prioritized on my work. Writing and thinking differently, how I return to the vineyard… | Continue reading
2-7-24 On office. Lots of rain. Had to get Jackie his basketball Jersey. Call scheduled with wine conversation, […] | Continue reading
my Mental Health and character, Composition. Removing all low ebbs, nearly completely recovered from the one experienced the […] | Continue reading
Promising myself more poetry. Be that poet, the one you were at SSU. Fuck prose. Any pattern or […] | Continue reading
My mood becomes a rattlesnake, any sort of agitated predator. Why should I … you know what, never […] | Continue reading
First tool, an actual journal. No typing. I’m talking PEN, INK. Paper, pages and pages of scribbles and […] | Continue reading
Writing for mood and attitude, happiness, shaping your reality. Telling stories, how I will get back in the […] | Continue reading
…not letting it. Stoic attempt… no anger, no saddens, no emotion. Just an even skip from moment to […] | Continue reading
17:03 Happiness is a decision. As is attitude supporting. You have to have the attitude of control, that […] | Continue reading
Over 700 words. 10:07. Call up to the kids and they don’t want breakfast yet. Thinking of taking […] | Continue reading
wake early everyday, no matter what. If I’m with the Nurse, or the kids, or the rare, very […] | Continue reading
08:50 sipping espresso, Drink Coffee Write Books/Blogs Be Happy. The business plan from the mask mom bought during […] | Continue reading
2-2-24 08:57. Meeting about to start. Relatively easy morning with kids. Henry with a couple of eruptions, but […] | Continue reading
there was playing. Raining again, back in office, back to coffee and vineyard thoughts and dreams. Passion, living […] | Continue reading
11:41 Not sure I’m going to complete fast. Shit, totally thought I would. Want to escape office but […] | Continue reading