Over the past few years, I’ve been mentally open to new ideas. I used to be very closed-minded, sure that no matter what the topic was, I had a firm grip on “the truth,” or at least had very strong opinions about it. I felt I had the right religion, had the correct political beliefs,…

Is it a good decision? Bad decision? Paralysis by over analysis leads to no decision which in itself is a decision. The decision one makes by making no decision is “more of the same.” If nothing changes, nothing changes. I cannot predict the future. I have many decisions that have quickly led to some degree…

The idea that I am now “awake” is only occurring in my thoughts and I am only aware that I’ve been sleeping once I “wake up.” The very real possibility exists that I haven’t actually woken up yet because I don’t know what I don’t know. Anyway, have a good day, thanks for reading!

I did not “climb my way out of insanity” and somehow gain “sanity.” It might look that way to some people, but I had to clarify that the other day. I didn’t become sane. I simply stopped trying to prove that I wasn’t crazy. That question, “Am I crazy or not?” stopped running my life.…

A friend asked me what I thought the meaning of life was today. I said I wasn’t sure there actually was a meaning to life. I told him the day I stopped worrying about such things was the day my life got easier in a variety of ways. The more I read about things like…

Weird. As I’ve come to find out, the entire universe as I know it, with all of its/my “problems” and the solutions to those problems, occurs only in the language of my internal thinking. Well, I’ll be damned. No I won’t. See? If that’s true, and as far as I can tell it is, then…

I once had a small gathering at my house and I was cooking up some chicken wings for everyone. I typically deep fry chicken wings in an old moonshine still out in the garage. At these gatherings, some actual moonshine might make an appearance. Pretty soon the whole neighborhood is in the garage, eating chicken…

There was one day when I was alone at the distillery and a friend came to visit. I was grateful for his visit because it was typically pretty lonely out there.It was way out in Coshocton, Ohio, which is a town about two hours away from anything but the beautiful foothills of the Appalachians. The…

I’ve been through a number of twelve-step programs and found value in all of them. I was surprised to discover, when going through my first 12-step program, A.A., that the steps themselves had very little to do with alcohol. It was more about taking personal responsibility in my life. A.A. taught me to put my…

There’s no pressure to do anything, other than the pressure I put upon myself. I used to struggle with high blood pressure, which I blamed on all the stress in my job. I had what I felt were a lot of responsibilities over a lot of things. I was technically responsible for a bunch of…