When The Training Takes Over
Art Courtesy of Isabella DeChard You hear it in the realm of Jason Bourne and other entertainment fabrications. Would you be surprised to learn that it’s true in real life? I just experienced it first-hand, one of the most consequential events in my life. As I wait at the traffic light to turn southbound onto…
May the Microforce Be With You
Unlike the well-known Grateful Dead song, lately, it occurs to me…what a short, commonplace jaunt this has been. I just started microdosing psilocybin, the psychoactive ingredient in “magic” mushrooms. I researched two different dosing schedules, the Paul Stamets and Fadiman protocols, and decided on the Fadiman Protocol. Every three days I consume a .1g dose…
Green Future Dreams
Here’s a scenario with which I’m sure you’re familiar: You pull up to your favorite fast food drive-thru. Even though you picked the restaurant and knew what you wanted, it’s nice to have options. Maybe try something new? Maybe not. “Yeah, lemme get uhhhhhh…” Similarly, I’d wager this scenario is familiar: You enter your favorite…
Keeping Cool
One of my favorite scenes of Marvel’s The Avengers is the alien attack on New York City. Bad guys and giant flying worm/bugs are pouring endlessly out of a wormhole, destroying everything and everyone in their path. For the first time, the Avengers are facing a foe together, and yet one of their key members…
Emotional Support Dad: How Cannabis Helped Forge a Relationship with my Epileptic Son
I was fully engrossed in an episode of History’s “Forged in Fire.” Four bladesmiths were challenged with creating a knife out of ball bearings and fish hooks using a canister Damascus technique. I took a drag off my PAX 3 vaporizer. “That’s a rookie mistake right there,” my son, Greyson, said, jarring me from my…