SquarePeg Books

Category: Life

  • Holidays Are Coming . . .

    As we enter the typically most stressful time of the year (for the US, anyway), I am forced to review my life (again). Family circumstances have changed: there have been deaths, there have been kids going to college, there are kids learning to drive. Injuries that didn’t seem like much at the time but have…

  • More Arrrgh!!!

    I do hours of research. I read reviews, books, articles. I ask questions to various groups I’m part of that are relevant to what they do vs the information I need. I feel like I make an informed decision. I feel confident in what I’m doing. I feel this is, in fact, the best path…

  • Loaded Questions

    Share a lesson you wish you had learned earlier in life. No plan, no matter how awesome or well-plotted, never survives contact with the situation. The plan WILL CHANGE. Improvisation skills are just as important as being prepared. It doesn’t matter the situation–home, work, finding a job, raising a kid, changing a tire, a relative…

  • Prompt, October 1, 2024

    What skill would you like to learn? ALL OF THEM! I’ve always wanted to learn all kinds of things. Lamp working, spinning, woodcarving, bookmaking, weaving, extreme shark racing, crochet, knit, film making, sewing, skateboarding, programming, skiing, gardening, ice carving, pottery, painting, digital art, dog grooming, platypus farming, hairstyling, Icelandic, ASL, juggling, magic, dancing, martial arts, …

  • Brain Not Braining

    Why is everything so hard!?!?!?!? I’ll be the first one to say that my subconscious brain will turn every single mouse-turd task that’s out of the ordinary chores list into a free-climb up K2 with no equipment, but now I’m getting pissed about it. And getting pissed about it doesn’t make it any easier to…

  • Co-Morbidities Suck

    How many layers does this onion have? Damn. 2 years ago, the total body pain and physical fatigue had gotten to a quality-of-life point. For 20 years, I’d dealt with increasing joint pain throughout my whole body. I was at a point where I was in bed 16 hours a day, just to function for…