It began with picking up a used copy of The Gunslinger in Dave’s Olde Book Shop in Manhattan Beach all those years ago. Cool title. Cool cover. Or maybe it really began the first time I saw the boring-but-since-it-was-Stephen-King creepy cover of Misery. It could even have truly started with the It cover that used to scare the crap out […]
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Dog Swimming and the Unbeatable Psychology of Keeping it Simple
I’ve swum with my labrador retriever roughly 5,000 times. The first time was in the Atlantic Ocean in South Florida. Back then my wife and I lived only about a half-mile from the ocean in Delray Beach. Most nights after work I’d take the dog, now simply known as Mr. P, or ‘P’, by the […]
Why Waking Up at 5:30AM is the Opposite Of Everything I Expected
Written By: Jon Finkel STEALING TIME IS AMAZING My brother Craig used this phrase and I like it so I’ll use it too. I used to get up between 6:00 and 6:30am or earlier depending on when my kids came in to wake me up. I was always up late writing and I never knew […]