20:16

Night and day down-winding. Wrote poem earlier, but on phone. Just needed, I don’t know… music. Verse. Listening […] | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 1 day ago

Me… Now…. Thought. Not going anywhere… 🖊️ | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 1 day ago

Own It – EVERYTHING

Here’s something I’ve learned the hard, beautiful way: you’ve got to chase the wild ones. The dreams that […] | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 1 day ago

Sent an email, winery-related.  All the people I’ve met in tasting rooms, going through my pictures

from years ago and shots with people I don’t remember but there was some interaction brought about and […] | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 1 day ago

4-2-25

08:49… in office. The only one here. Just how I like it. Prefer it, better to say. Morning […] | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 1 day ago

Me. Now. | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 2 days ago

Scribbles..

And espresso sips. | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 2 days ago

4-1-25 Jack said he was going to play an April Fool’s joke on me. Ready and waiting. Stay […] | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 2 days ago

Stop. Appreciate.

Collect, smile, onward while inward… Put it all to page. | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 3 days ago

Take a walk—without your phone. Not to “unplug,” not to reset your nervous system or chase some manufactured […] | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 3 days ago

Truth. And my heart is heaping. | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 4 days ago

3-30-25

20:40…. Home. Tired. Not much to write. Heater on, and should turn it off. Exciting stuff. Committed to […] | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 4 days ago

Coffee for Nurse and I and

hot chocolates for kids. ♥️ | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 4 days ago

Even…. Words. Quiet. | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 6 days ago

Nurse at work, sending me sweet words, I send her some back and a picture of the coffee made in

the loft, in the Paris cup. Then we go on and on and back and forth about our […] | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 6 days ago

today

3-28-25 Meetings and Wishes and Words NOW …….. Life is all surprises. All days. Each of them. Other […] | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 6 days ago

Pic from the other night, when Jack was hanging out with just the Nurse and I while Emma […] | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 9 days ago

16:17 —> Hot today.  And yes I’m going to say hot.  Another sparkling water finished and I think I

might have hit a record with that one. EOD call done, annoying as it was. Flying from one […] | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 9 days ago

3-25-25 08:59 At VV desk. Discipline. Innumerable emails, the goal of the day. And each one unique. No […] | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 9 days ago

Sonoma County morning…. Enjoy the day. ♥️ | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 12 days ago

Espresso

Always in queue…. | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 13 days ago

3/21/25 Friday. Finally… Emma still asleep, Jack and Henry still up. Today is going to be deciding, I […] | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 13 days ago

3-17-25

Ink, mindful, grateful, in love. | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 17 days ago

14:02…. This is a game. All a game. Survive as long as I can and use telecom for […] | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 17 days ago

Back to the fucking “integrity training”. I’m sorry, am I the only one who finds that funny, a […] | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 17 days ago

No office today with the kids on Spring Break, and me solo.  Wish I were a teacher, and just had a whole fucking week off to do what-the-fuck-ever.

Some of us, well, not that. Sip coffee again. From the cup I got from the MSP, my […] | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 17 days ago

♥️ | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 19 days ago

10:42…. Back and forth between journals.  Need more coffee, that’s for sure.

This morning, I jolted awake to my own dizzying meditation, new music and color to them. Nothing dreary […] | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 19 days ago

09:32 ::: Time for coffee. Letting myself stop not with any project today. Not one of them will […] | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 19 days ago

In office, espresso.  Thoughts, wondering what’s next in certain stories.  Slept okay….

Will need more coffee. Henry having his appointments here for the next couple months…. Imagining Paris, and when […] | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 19 days ago

NOTES—

🖊️ | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 20 days ago

‘’’’’’’’ Thinking like Kerouac, but different. Actually, WAY different. Optimism blankets me but then cynicism sneaks in. And […] | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 20 days ago

Everything in here. With me. Soon shared… | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 20 days ago

09:36… quick power nap.  Then go for a drive around territory, or pretend to. 

Turning this into a game, how long I can survive. Will get contracts and sales where I can, […] | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 20 days ago

3-14-25

–> 07:32… Leaving in 20 or so. Up at 06:00 then to Starbucks. Nurse leaving shortly after then […] | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 20 days ago

3-13-25 09:39… in office, and should be for a better slice of the day’s cake. Mind over any […] | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 21 days ago

3-11-25 Off phone with client, 11:19 Call at noon, and this could be big. Need to devote more […] | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 23 days ago

3-10-25

Novato, CA. 13:46. On the street where I met the Nurse for the first time. Grant. Across the […] | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 24 days ago

Focusing on SELF… repairing this character.  Not that I often use the word motivation, but

“motivation” isn’t a constant flame—it flickers. I’m learning that’s okay. Self-starting means fanning it back to life, even […] | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 27 days ago

Say Other Core

Alive how only Check yell standards varied read Recognizing dawn | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 28 days ago

My attitude.  That’s the project. 

This idea and realization that I keep fucking having over and over pushing me one way then another, […] | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 29 days ago

Sun. 3/2/25 18:00…. Sometimes the Story does what it wants and you just ride. And here I am… […] | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 1 month ago

Kiddos sneaking in….

Watching the new Minions movie from our bed. ♥️ | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 1 month ago

Small Fry, smiling and clean and his big sister wanted to show him off to the WORLD. | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 1 month ago

Sat. 3/1/25

Wanted to write date differently. Do EVERYTHING not as I usually, today. Henry at appt, Jack playing his […] | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 1 month ago

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2-28-25

Last day of February, huh…. Nurse left a bit ago, kids still asleep. One of them with a […] | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 1 month ago

A memory, recognizing.

Grateful. And un-fucking-afraid. #MADIGANMOBB | Continue reading


@bottledaux.com | 1 month ago