My New Favorite Pandemic Hobby
Happy Thanksgiving! I hope you and your loved ones are staying safe amidst this latest surge in COVID cases. I’m hunkered down here in San Francisco for the foreseeable future and have been discovering so many new ways to make the most of quarantine time. Meditation has become one...
My FIRE Plan
Since discovering the FIRE movement a few years ago, I have been much more focused on the ‘Financial Independence’ part of the acronym and barely paid attention to the ‘Retire Early’ part. I am lucky to have a job that I love. I had a rather meandering series of...
My Experience at a 10-Day Silent Meditation Retreat
Meditation was one of those things that I had wanted to explore for many years. I went to a lecture by a physician in 2011 which discussed neuroplasticity and shared some of the studies about the impacts of meditation on the brain, and that is what really piqued my...