The Long Game

Happy Sunday (Or whichever day you happen to be reading this) everyone. Here we are kicking off the second week of 2022. I fully confess that it’s been a slow start. Maybe it’s been that way for you as well. Maybe you haven’t gotten right on those projects that you said you’d get to at …

Looking Forward: 2022

2021 was a bit of a year, wasn’t it? For me, it was a rebuilding year. Part of that rebuilding was tearing down – not quite literally. There were some health issues which put me off my feet for a few months and had me reacting to life up until, say the final quarter of …

Looking back: 2021

The first draft of this post was massive. Now if you’ve ever seen the early drafts of my work – “Short” stories included – this shouldn’t come as a surprise, but I’d raised the bar even for me. I found myself talking about *Everything* including deeply personal stuff, better set down in a personal journal- …

One Percent

From the title of this post, I can tell that there are some of you who are going to reel back in surprise saying, “That sounds suspiciously like math is going to happen. Who are you, and what have you done with Ken??” Trust me, nothing’s happened – and there won’t be any math involved. …

Awkward Words

Today, Reader, I’d like to talk about something that I thought I’d try doing and how it led me to write the three most awkward words I’ve written in a long time. In the ongoing work to improve my overall Happiness, I started writing little “Thank You” notes to my Past Self. It started out …