Jim Applegate

If you could somehow learn about every human experience that has ever been recorded (in books, pictures, audio and video recordings, blog entries, etc.) you would know everything that humanity has ever known

“Sometimes you just have to do things that you don’t want to do.” That was my Dad’s answer to my inevitable resistance to doing chores, or homework, or whatever I was

We all self-medicate. It’s our tendency as humans to try to make ourselves feel better when we don’t feel great. Some of us eat comfort foods. Some of us drink alcohol

Shortly before she died, my mother told me that she wanted to get out of our way. She said that her death would allow me and my sisters to live our lives without

Sometimes I’m surprised at how old I am. Maybe it’s what everyone goes though in a mid-life crisis, wondering where all the time went and why we haven’t accomplished more.