Three people close to me have told me the same thing lately – that I’m too hard on myself. And I’m starting to think that believing them might be the most anti-manosphere thing I can do. One was my boss, one was my oldest daughter, and the third was someone I’ve been talking to about…
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Caulfield is Better Than Clavicular
Hi, Everyone! This week I’m overwhelmed at work as my employer prepares to defend a grant application, but I wanted to share my thoughts on an article I read this week. The piece made me feel gratified, maybe even vindicated, for my unappreciated take on a novel my English class read in high school. Perhaps…
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I’m writing from southcentral Montana, where I’m taking my daughters to visit the places they heard me talk about spending time in my youth. And it’s just as well, because my running is just not going well. Case in point, I did find a middle school track (clay cinders, just like I ran on in…
Get this Warm CurrentBad News; Worse Feelings
I ran a 1200m time trial this morning, three weeks out from my target mile race. I’ve been building toward this workout for weeks and looking forward to it telling me where I stood. I was confident about the data. I thought I was ready for whatever the data said. I was wrong about the…
Get this Warm CurrentNobody Told Me I Have Friends
This week, I’m sharing an update about the work toward my summer running challenge and how I am seeing my own internal barriers to connection popping up. If you’ve been reading you know my right Achilles is still a problem. Not a catastrophic one, but the kind of thing that quietly colors everything, my mood,…
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Broken body. Broken plans. A trap?
This is the 50th edition of the newsletter. Whether you’ve been reading a week or have been here from the start, I appreciate your readership! Given that this newsletter is about doing the hard work of dealing with – well, life – and doing it in a way that’s healthier than the cultural zeitgeist shows…
Get this Warm CurrentIt’s Global Running Day! Celebrate Daily
Global Running Day happens on the first Wednesday in June to encourage people around the world to go run. That’s it. There’s no length or time requirement. There’s no particular reason. Just run. Because we live in a time where social media “influencers” seem to dominate, you’re going to see a lot of them seizing…
Get this Warm CurrentCommit to Yourself and Things Change
This week, I will focus the newsletter on the “Commit” pillar of Warm Current. Because I’ve got real evidence that consistent commitment to yourself creates conditions where good things happen. This whole newsletter is my attempt to live out loud the things that I hope will make a difference to (in my own small way)…
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When Things Don’t Go Your Way
I got rejected for a job this week. One I really wanted. It stings, and I won’t pretend it doesn’t. The job market right now is objectively brutal. Unemployment numbers look okay on paper, but hiring rates are at their lowest in a decade. Applications disappear into black holes. “Ghost jobs” that were never real…
Get this Warm CurrentWhy So Many Men Are Struggling
Prince William is talking about men’s mental health in the UK. Fortune and the Wall Street Journal are running stories about non-college-educated men dropping out of the workforce. The VA recently released data showing veteran suicide rates hit their highest level since 2018. I don’t think these are separate stories. They’re connected. The Fortune piece…
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