I had a birthday recently so now I get an extra word for each entry

Sometimes I like being told I'm really good at something.

But when it means getting compared to another person it becomes uneasy.

Perhaps I only like the idea of being good at something.

Advantages of being at a conference just a 5-minute walk from the Pacific

In the moonlit darkness, I hurled rock after egg-sized rock into the crashing waves. They either disappeared into the starry night or the deafening water. But the rocks didn't make another sound.