by Sam Stortz | Feb 22, 2024 | General |
“The most shocking thing when I started meditating was being given the simple exercise to observe my breath coming in and out of the nostrils, not controlling it, just observing it, and I couldn’t do it for more than 10 seconds. For 10 seconds I would try...
by Sam Stortz | Feb 12, 2024 | General |
I wrote a post about 10 years ago with the following thesis: The stage of life that you’re in is the stage of life that you want to be in. I don’t know what was going on in my life for me to make such a profound statement, but in the 10 years since writing...
by Sam Stortz | Feb 4, 2024 | General |
The Eugene marathon is in exactly 12 weeks and I want to log how things have gone up to this point. I’ve been following ‘the plan’ for the last four weeks. My coach wrote the plan with a goal of 2 hours and 30 minutes, which is 5:43 mile pace. That...
by Sam Stortz | Jan 22, 2024 | General |
I drink regularly. While my days of blacking out are (mostly) over, I still enjoy a few beers or glasses of wine most weekends, with the occasional ‘go-hard’ night mixed in. When I was younger, my binge drinking was arguably a problem, but I would never...
by Sam Stortz | Jan 17, 2024 | General |
In 7th grade, a kid named Matt used to call me flat-head. He was, by all definitions, a bully. In math class, he would sit at the desk behind me, put his feet on the back of my desk, and shake my desk as much as he could. One day, after enough torment, I stabbed down...
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