Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

Despite the many downsides to having surgery and being a parent, like not being able to pick my daughter up for six weeks because she weighs more than I am allowed to lift, there is one plus: early bedtimes and naps. When I first got back from the hospital, I needed to rest extra in…

I don’t know if this is a common thing or not, but when I had things happen physically (with my Ulcerative Colitis), I found it very workable to only tell people the details that were actually interested and who actually cared about the answer. I found that most people ask how you are or if…

A friend of mine suggested that I blog about my experiences with Ulcerative Colitis and the surgery I just had to handle it. I’ve been meaning to, but haven’t gotten around to it, but that little push has inspired me, so we’ll start small and I’ll try to cover everything in and amongst my other…

Being a dad is one of the coolest things I am right now. I had been really sick for most of Daphne’s life and was her “dad” in name only. I wasn’t really able to do much with her. I was always tired or working to support our family and so that my wife could…

Ok, I am going to try to start blogging more consistently here, but you’ll have to stick with me a bit as I have quite a few things that I would like to talk about that I have backlogged so things might come out randomly as they come back to mind.

It really is amazing how nice people in general are. When you don’t feel well, you can start to get pretty pessimistic about things, but over the last couple weeks people’s generosity has really shined through and renewed my faith in mankind. Once I hit the hospital doors, people necessity to help really has kicked…

Over the past couple of years I have really learned what Prednisone can do to your relationships with people that you deal with a lot. I’ve always known that coming off the Prednisone makes me someone cranky and hard to be around for a few days while my body adjusts to the new level. I…

These next many posts are going to be a bit random, but I wanted to get some things down and start blogging again, so here goes. The first thing that I find very exciting is that I am up near my “pre-disaster” body weight. Prior to this whole body situation a couple of years ago,…

Just a quick post tonight, but last night I was putting my daughter to bed–usually Chris does this, but we are trying to switch over because if Chris does it, she can’t leave the bed (Daphne wakes up if mommy leaves, but not dad). Anyway, she fell asleep with me in the rocking chair and…

This month is the national blog posting month and in the spirit of NaBloPoMo, I am going to try to post each day this month. We’ll see how it goes. I’ve been having a hard time actually getting the blog posts up here. I think about them and what I would want to write and…