How Fitness Will Make You a Better Writer
Writers aren’t generally associated with physical prowess and health. In fact, we tend to be something of a willowy, weak-chested
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Floored by Travel Exhaustion? 4 Things that Will Get You Over the Travel Wall
Travel is thrilling, inspiring, and fun, but is also exhausting, both physically and mentally. You’re on your feet all day
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How to Have White Privilege
When I woke it took me a moment to remember where I was, then through the soft morning light that
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Health and Fitness Advice: What Works for Real People?
Achieving a greater level of health and fitness is a goal that is shared by most, but achieved by few.
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Painting Bad Feels So Good: How A Creative Lifestyle Drives Success in Business
Recently I took up painting, and I quickly realized that I am a bad painter. Maybe the worst of painters.
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Interview with Courtney Klop, Owner and Coach at Health for Happiness
Illustrating yet again that the world is small, I recently made the acquaintance of one Courtney Klop, with whom I
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Why I’m Sick of Building My Personal Brand: And Two Solutions
If you’re an entrepreneur – whether that means you’re a strategist, designer, copywriter, journalist, musician, or whatever your particular hustle
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Making Your Workout More Effective and Efficient Part II: HIIT, Full Range of Motion, Yoga, and Practical Application
A couple of years back when I was just beginning to get deep into my fitness journey, I hit a
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Traveling with Intention Part II: Mexico Recap
A few months ago I posted a piece on the benefits of traveling with intention before I struck out to
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A Life Done Right You Should Know: Marie Colvin
“Bravery is not being afraid to be afraid.” “Journalists covering combat shoulder great responsibilities and face difficult choices. Sometimes they
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Get Weird: 11 Real (Strange) Benefits to Taking Hallucinogens
There are some lessons—some pieces of intelligence, if you will—that are seemingly impossible to impart using words. They’re experienced based,
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Experimentation is Everything: 5 Tips that Will Improve Your Writing and Help Find Your Voice
In an interview with the Paris Review, Henry Miller explained that didn’t find his voice until he wrote Tropic of
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Pushin’ Rope: Why a Jump Rope is a Life-Changing Piece of Exercise Equipment
When I first launched my exercise-ship several years ago (well, it might have started out as more of a dinghy),
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Interview with Bad Yogi Owner and Instructor Erin Motz
Recently I decided to start bolstering my fitness routine with yoga, but between my hectic work schedule and constant travel, the
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A Brief Eulogy for Boxer, Poet, and Genuine Goddamn Human Muhammad Ali
“He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.” “Wars of nations are fought to
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Finding Time to Write When You Have a Busy Life
Like many people, I’ve been calling myself a writer on and off for practically all my life. It’s one of
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Make People Care: How to Write About Your Life Without Boring Your Readers
At some point you’ve probably heard someone say it: “My life is so interesting that I ought to write a
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Making Your Adventure a Success: The Benefits of Traveling with Intention
In forty-eight hours I’ll be winging off on yet another binge of open-ended travel, this time to Puerto Escondido, Mexico,
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The Seattle #ManInTree Situation: How Iatrogenic Helicopter Culture Is Ruining Everything
“How much taxpayer money are you wasting? It’s not an emergency!” #ManInTree A Quick Word: After 25+ hours in the
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Unexpected Advice for Kids that Will Help Them Forever
Back when I was in college I spent a couple of years working in a preschool classroom. It was one
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The Party Was Great But It’s Winding Down: Why Booze and Drugs Are Losing Their Appeal (For Me, at Least)
I vividly remember my first drink. It was 2000 and I was sixteen. My band had its first show coming
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Thrillist: Can an Interactive Touchscreen Teach Men How to Pleasure Women Once and For All?
“From online dating to robots, technology has completely changed the way people date and have sex. But while these advances
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How to Be Romantic: It Should Be Taught In Schools Because We’re Terrible At It
“It takes technique to make love last.” Ovid, the Art of Love Tom Robbins once wrote that there is only
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Happiness is Here Now: 14 Steps You Can Take Down the Path Toward Happiness TODAY
Happiness can seem like an elusive thing. Try as we might, it often feels like it’s just beyond reach. And
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On the Go Fitness: Keeping Healthy with a Busy Lifestyle
“Time and focus – it never seems like we have enough. Between work, family, social life, and the endless number
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The Benefits of Madness: How Cultivating (Or At Least Experimenting With) a Fringe Perspective Will Help Save the World
“I stared out to sea and said nothing for a while. But somehow I knew she was right. Yes sir,
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Brief Missive from the Trenches: Coping with Busyness, Business, and Change
In the past year I haven’t spent more than two months living in any one town, and usually significantly less
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You’re Pushing Yourself Too Hard: Signs that You’re Overtraining or Over-working and What to Do About it
People tend to want too much of a good thing. I hate to open by stating something that everyone knows,
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Fed Up: A Movie that Exposes How the Food Industry Is Killing You With Sugar
Diet and exercise—it’s the end-all solution to obesity that is prescribed time and time again. But if that’s the truth,
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Interview with Pubslush Co-Founder Amanda Barbara
It’s time for another interview, this time with entrepreneur and Pubslush co-founder Amanda Barbara. In a nutshell, Pubslush is an
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LiveStrong.com Post: 5 Things to Pack to Stay Fit While Traveling
“If you only travel occasionally, maintaining your health and fitness routine over the course of each jaunt probably isn’t such
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Interview with New York Times Bestselling Writer, Traveler, and Entrepreneur Chris Guillebeau
This week I have another interview to share, this time with writer and entrepreneur Chris Guillebeau. Chris began making a
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I Reached Out to Tom Robbins and Look What Happened: the Benefits of Connecting With Someone You Haven’t in a While (or Never Have Before)
So I wrote a letter the other day. A real letter, on paper, albeit typed then printed. Into an envelope
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I Met a Man With No Face: The True Meaning of Looking on the Bright Side of Life
Paris is one of those 24/7 cities where everything is crazy all the time—or at least that’s been my experience.
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Why Bees and Trees Don’t Concern Themselves With Crises: Losing Expectations and Asking the Right Questions
For better and for worse, human beings end up asking a lot of questions pertaining to who we are and
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My First Post on LiveStrong.com! 5 Things You Need to Build an Affordable Home Gym
I’m excited to announce that I’ve joined the contributor team at LiveStrong.com. Sharing what I’ve learned over the course of
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A Few Ways to Burn Fat and Gain Muscle Faster by Making Your Workout More Effective and Efficient
So you finally realized the value in exercising, and you took the steps necessary to build a workout routine into
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A Few Universal Life and Business Lessons I Learned When I Was In a Band
Every experience we have provides us with the opportunity to learn something new. Sometimes the slightest experience provides the most
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Making Big Moves: How to Stop Procrastinating and Start Going Places
Around this same time two years ago, my girlfriend and I decided that we wanted to move to Spain. It
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What Makes the Muskrat Guard His Musk? Courage: the Definition and Path to Bravery
It’s common to have memories that you look back on with a fair level of self-deprecation over having lost your
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Escaping the Escape from the Present Moment: Why Every Few Years I Move to the Middle of Nowhere
“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and
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The “Right Mood” Fallacy: Nothing Ever Gets Better if You Wait for the Right Moment
We say or think it all the time: “I’m not in the right mood for [insert activity] now.” Whether we’re
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Every Little Thing’s Gonna Be Alright: How to Reduce Stress by Looking Ahead
First off, I’d like to mention that the inspiration from this post came from a great little book by Dr.
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Romancing the Planet Interviewed Me, and Now I Ask You: What Do You Think It Takes to be a Writer?
Last year while I was living in Granada, Romancing the Planet had a few questions for me about traveling and
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Join the Great Conversation: the Importance of Having Art in Your Life
Sitting across from one another on opposite banks of the Seine stand the Louvre and Musee d’Orsay. Both are world-class
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For Your Health: Don’t Die of Confusion
The latest season of the sometimes-all-too-accurate spoof series Portlandia kicked off with a humorous (and, once again, all-too-accurate) portrayal of
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How to be Single: Do the Things that Make You Happy
Our culture is rather strange for a variety of reasons, one of which involves how we experience the process of
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Surprise! The World Isn’t Ending. Now What Are You Gonna Do?
Back when I was an angst-ridden teenager I was absolutely, positively, 100% sure that the world was going to end
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The Game is Rigged, So You Might as Well Set the Odds in Your Favor: the Art of Making Your Own Luck
“Opportunity is missed by people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.” —Thomas Edison Around the
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One Year Abroad: Making Changes, Finding Happiness, and Drinking Duff
Cafe Bohemia is situated adjacent to Plaza del Lobos, a small square with a fountain in which the bums cool
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