Every post from OldDogZeroTricks in one place – the raw, the real, and the stuff we rarely admit out loud. This is the blog.
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November 25, 2025What Would You Do If Money Wasn’t an Issue?
Strip away the mortgage payments and the grocery budget anxiety. What remains? What would you actually choose to do with your days if survival wasn’t part of the equation?CONTINUE READING -
November 30, 2025When AI Summarizes Your Life (And You’re Not Sure If It’s Being Too Kind)
AI analyzed my life choices and I wasn’t sure if it was being too kind. From helicopter pilot to Japan teacher to farmer – do my decisions show purpose or drift?CONTINUE READING -
November 25, 2025Is Everyone Real or Are Some People NPCs/Bots?
You do not get mad at a vending machine for not listening. So why get mad at people who cannot connect? Viewing unresponsive people as “NPCs” might be the secret to your sanity.CONTINUE READING -
November 25, 2025What Do You Hope Heaven Is Like?
I left my cat Simon behind when I moved to LA. My roommate said he used to call for me in my empty room. I hope he is the first one to greet me on the other side.CONTINUE READING -
December 5, 2025The Long Road: What Five Years of Breast Cancer Taught Me About Life After 50
Before cancer, I lived as if I was immortal. Now I know I might die soon or live another forty years. Here is how facing death taught me to stop wasting time.CONTINUE READING -
November 25, 2025Spiritual, Open-Minded, or Just Crazy? (The Things We Usually Keep to Ourselves)
I needed 3,000 yen for groceries. As I watched a car drive by, three 1,000 yen bills literally materialized from under it. This is my story of unexplainable coincidences.CONTINUE READING -
November 25, 2025Are You Trying to Turn Your Life Around? I Am!
I went from night shifts in the UK to flying helicopters in Florida. I know what it feels like to make the impossible happen. So why am I living paycheck to paycheck at 57?CONTINUE READING -
December 3, 2025The Family Outsider: When You Love Them But Live Differently
My sister sent a photo of her and my dad eating at McDonald’s. It reminded me of everything I am missing. But it also made me realize something else: I am the family outsider.CONTINUE READING -
December 23, 2025It’s All Relative (But Is That Comfort or Cop-Out?)
Yesterday, I cycled to work in the pouring rain. At 56, it felt both liberating and slightly absurd. Part of me felt like a happy kid. Another part wondered if this is “failure to launch.”CONTINUE READING -
November 25, 2025What’s Your Sanctuary?
Sanctuary isn’t just a place. It is the feeling of exhaling after holding your breath all day. For me, it is a 4 AM walk. Where is the one place where you can finally stop performing?CONTINUE READING -
December 23, 2025It’s Okay to Be Broken (Sometimes That’s When Love Looks Most Real)
We said goodbye with a fist bump in the rain. Twenty years reduced to a simple gesture. She knew it was the right ending. I was just trying to survive it.CONTINUE READING -
December 23, 2025The Quiet Practice of Being Grateful
Some mornings at 4 AM, walking to 7-Eleven, I have a conversation with something larger than myself. It is not formal prayer. It is just acknowledging that I have enough for today.CONTINUE READING