Moderate Living

Hello, I'm Mike – I write every Tuesdays and Fridays

Month: November 2025

  • Special Edition Post: Tradition & The Bittersweet Passage Of Time

    Special Edition Post: Tradition & The Bittersweet Passage Of Time

    Ohio State – 27 other school – 9 It feels damn good to be a Buckeye tonight 😁 As I look – and smile – at these next 364 days as officially Ohio State being better than the other school, I have to stop and wonder what people like myself must have been thinking the…

  • Rivalry Game Eve – American Traditions Part II

    Rivalry Game Eve – American Traditions Part II

    Again, for non US readers, a peak into American culture! This weekend will have 3 very special college rivalry games: University of Alabama vs. Auburn University (The Iron Bowl) Mississippi State University vs. University Of Mississippi known as “Ole Miss” (The Egg Bowl) Both will have a big impact on this January’s national championship race.…

  • American Traditions

    American Traditions

    This Thursday, historically as every last Thursday in November, the United States will celebrate its annual Thanksgiving holiday. The celebration is uniquely continental, although variations exist throughout the world (our wonderful Canadian cousins celebrate it a month earlier) but mostly for the same purpose – to celebrate a figurative lifeline yield of crops to get…

  • Blank Slate

    Blank Slate

    Sometimes, I have no idea what to write about on my designated days. It may be because my mind is locked up on some type of long-term obligation or goal. Or maybe it could be that the days are shorter and there’s more dark hours than light. I could see those factors influencing my sense…

  • Moderation By Fire : Living With Constraints

    Moderation By Fire : Living With Constraints

    This year marks a decade of me being in my current house. And almost a decade and a half from making a full financial recovery from official bankruptcy during the housing crash of 2008. The two are inextricably linked but for the purposes of my post, I’m just meshing them together for the purposes of…

  • My Strange BROTHER From Albany, New York

    My Strange BROTHER From Albany, New York

    Back before the pandemic, I bought and worked an investment property with an on-site business in upstate New York. It was tedious and required an “all-hands-on-deck” approach. As such, my younger cousins eager to explore this area volunteered to help me set up my temporary housing and office. While I couldn’t go off exploring the…