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There's nothing quite like growing a beard, at least in my experience, that opens the door for other people to tell you what they'd like you to do. People suddenly feel free to offer their opinions, pervasive as those are, on whether I should grow it at all, how it makes me look, and what …
A few years ago, impressed as I was--and still am--with Menno Henselmans, I completed a questionnaire for the purpose of hiring Menno to take over my training and nutrition. I had a pretty good inkling I couldn't afford his services, and mentioned as much in my email to him, and when I received his quote …
First off, I'm not interested in a meatless diet. Sure, ethically I could make the case for not eating animals, but ultimately, they'd probably eat me if they could, and even if I didn't eat them out of some sense of empathetic reciprocity, it wouldn't prevent the rest of the planet's humans from eating them, …
The main reason I like high frequency weight training is that I like going to the gym. I enjoy every aspect of it and it covers two of the three requirements for contentment: Something to Do, and Something to Look Forward To. I also like it because intuitively, the concepts make sense to me. Since …
Action through inaction is one of the concepts I try to live by, in business as well as personal situations. It doesn't apply everywhere, but it's basically allowing things to take their natural course. I learned it during my studies of Taoism, which I often refer to when troubled. I even have the words Wu …
A few weeks ago, I'd given up hope on my minoxidil beard journey. For months I have dutifully applied the juice to my face twice a day. In the early going I also derma rolled twice a week and applied peppermint oil every day. I stopped derma rolling when the beard hair I do have …
I awoke several times from a deep sleep with what felt like my left leg being sawed off. As the song says, the thigh bone's connected to the hip bone, and it is that spot that ached and throbbed until I rose to consciousness out of some dreamscape I can no longer remember. It hurts …
My calendar alerted me that today, at 1:10 PM, the Mets would host the Cardinals to open the 2018 MLB Season. For me, there's nothing like another baseball season to open the floodgates of memories and emotions. My own childhood is drenched in baseball, from my own meager attempts to play organized ball--those memories are …
Just a few short days ago, my body was a wreck, my mind a shambles, and my future uncertain. I sit her today energized and in need of something to do. Remarkable what allowing fatigue to dissipate can do for a man's spirits. I also had my follow up at the VA's Endocrine Clinic today …
The 54-year old man who looks back at me, complaining about the left quad strain and the bicep and elbow tendinitis, had an epiphany last night, and it's not the first time. The problem is, my brain has its own ideas and is not necessarily my friend. It somehow refuses to accept how many times …
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