Seek The Substantial

I wasn’t inspired to write so I didn’t. that’s it. Plus, I’ve been writing a ton for Staking the Plains. 1. Ever wondered why the tip of South America looks this way. On the left is Chile and on the right is Argentina. That area is called the Tierra del…

1. I don’t know how I heard about Huckberry, but I bought some Rhodes boots from there and I wear them at least 3 times a week. They are terrific. At that point, I suppose that my purchasing habits resulted in YouTube telling me that they have a YouTube channel.…

I turned 50 in March. I am not sure how to feel about that other than the only option is forward. I am eternally grateful to be where I am. I am a child who was born with a hole in his heart, “fixed” when I was 4 and “fixed”…

The photo on the left is 10 years ago. Maybe my worst picture that I know of. I think I have another where the double-chin is really prevalent, but those two are definitely my worst photos. The photo on the right is from November when Fitsum and I ran a…

The current Beau Miles video is about the trek of one Angus McMillan, described by Miles as murderous and yes, that would seem to be the case. As Miles grew up as a young Australian lad, he was led to believe that McMillian was an explorer and pioneer, one to…

There are times that I hesitate to write about things, but then there may be things that although these things are incredibly personal, it may benefit someone to know that certain things happen. This isn’t so much about my kids as it is about certain kids in their schools who…

Outside Online’s Alex Hutchinson with a terrific article on supplements and whether or not they even work (there are a few that have scientifically been proven to work like creatine and baking soda and caffeine). Hutchinson talks initially about Andrew Huberman who I believe is one of these online gurus…

I’ve never NOT enjoyed a Beau Miles film and I feel the same about this one. It’s 4 films that never quite were good enough to be actual full featured YouTube films and Miles critiques these mini-videos and why they didn’t work out. There’s a bit at the end that’s…

I have just three astonishing things from Kent Hendricks list of 52 things he learned this year, but there are bunch more if you want to read Pheasant Island is an uninhabited island in the Bidasoa River between France and Spain. It is called a “condominium”, which means, “in international…

This is one of those things that I’ve never heard of and I like to consider myself well-read to an extent. The Imp of the Perverse is a short story by Edgar Allen Poe, “In the story, the narrator commits murder to inherit a man’s estate. A coroner attributes the…