Ten years ago I was in my dorm bedroom, sitting on the bed, cross-legged, in the drug rehab center Hazelden, in the middle of f***ing nowhere in Minnesota, in the winter, in the first month of my 3-month prison-like sentence for prescription narcotic addiction. A copy of the book
A very close friend of mine has cancer, and it is almost sure to end his life in the very near future. He lives in another city but was here on a short visit. We went to lunch and had sushi together the day of his flight back home. After
The title is a quote from the stunningly sensational book Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman. Mr. Burkeman is/was a self-professed productivity geek and writer of the – This Column Will Change Your Life – column for The Guardian. His productivity world came to a head one
One day my wife Lea Ann said to me “nothing ever stops you.” She clearly did not mean it as a compliment, but I took it as one of the greatest compliments anyone has ever paid me. I grew up as an only child with a violent alcoholic step father