Personal – Life and DIY https://lifeanddiy.com Biohacking Experiments for the Infinitely Curious Mon, 09 Mar 2026 12:54:12 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://lifeanddiy.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/faviconcurrent-250x250.png Personal – Life and DIY https://lifeanddiy.com 32 32 Starting Over at 43 – Why Staying Feels Harder than Leaving https://lifeanddiy.com/starting-over-any-age/ https://lifeanddiy.com/starting-over-any-age/#comments Tue, 30 Dec 2025 15:40:34 +0000 https://lifeanddiy.com/?p=9254 At 43, I chose to start over. This is the honest story behind that decision and the reasons I'll be moving to Japan in the near future.

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]]> https://lifeanddiy.com/my-goals-for-2024-update-faith-god/feed/ 2 I Question It All https://lifeanddiy.com/i-question-it-all/ https://lifeanddiy.com/i-question-it-all/#comments Wed, 10 Jun 2020 19:31:40 +0000 https://lifeanddiy.com/?p=1061 Sometimes our biggest battles are the ones within ourselves - the tension between heart and mind, fear and longing, struggle and the slow work of overcoming.

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]]> https://lifeanddiy.com/hardships-truth-of-living-in-the-middle-of-nowhere/feed/ 15 Vlog: Changing Brake Pads & Rotors in the Snow https://lifeanddiy.com/vlog-changing-brake-pads-rotors-in-the-snow/ https://lifeanddiy.com/vlog-changing-brake-pads-rotors-in-the-snow/#comments Thu, 28 Nov 2019 20:24:28 +0000 https://lifeanddiy.com/?p=924 Today I want to take you along on my interesting journey of fixing my brake pads & rotors in the snowy cold Wisconsin winter. Lots of challenges and a big problem occurs near the end. See how it turns out! Thanks for joining me!

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]]> https://lifeanddiy.com/vlog-changing-brake-pads-rotors-in-the-snow/feed/ 2 Why Being Blunt is So Important & the Loss of My Friend https://lifeanddiy.com/why-being-blunt-is-so-important-the-loss-of-my-friend/ https://lifeanddiy.com/why-being-blunt-is-so-important-the-loss-of-my-friend/#comments Tue, 15 Oct 2019 04:03:08 +0000 https://lifeanddiy.com/?p=585 Even if no one reads this, it will be therapeutic for me, though I am questioning whether or not I should post this. I am writing this after I realized I may have lost all my old correspondences which I saved between me and my closest friend I had, who has passed away. I deleted […]

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