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Welcome weary traveler… This is a collection of slightly-less-than-obvious sleep advice that’s actually worked for me. I had poor sleep for my entire…
Armand Cognetta

August 2022

Suffertember VI starts tomorrow! Suffer V was a rough one for me—I failed at most of my goals. I did have a few wins though, like reaching the first…
Armand Cognetta

September 2021

tags: poetry O Me! O Life! Walt Whitman O Me! O life! of the questions of these recurring, Of the endless trains of the faithless, of cities fill’d with…
Armand Cognetta
tags: poetry Not Anyone Who Says Mary Oliver Not anyone who says, “I’m going to be careful and smart in matters of love,” who says, “I’m going to choose…
Armand Cognetta

August 2021

Amazingly, this is now the fifth year of Suffertember! Last year was the most successful yet as both Suffertember Co-Founder Westley Dang and I were…
Armand Cognetta
tags: poetry Eating Poetry Mark Strand Ink runs from the corners of my mouth. There is no happiness like mine. I have been eating poetry. The librarian…
Armand Cognetta
tags: poetry What to Remember When Waking David Whyte, The House of Belonging In that first hardly noticed moment in which you wake, coming back to this…
Armand Cognetta
tags: poetry Quatrain 36 Omar Khayyám, The Rubáiyát The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit. Shall lure it back…
Armand Cognetta

January 2021

I have a healthy protein smoothie for breakfast every morning and often get asked how I make it. It’s super easy! Here are the ingredients. For each…
Armand Cognetta

January 2020

In the aftermath of the Chernobyl disaster the increase in cancer incidence rates for the 600,000 inhabitants in the most contaminated areas was…
Armand Cognetta

October 2019

Continued from Book Review: Can’t Hurt Me. You are in danger of living a life so comfortable and soft that you will die without ever realizing your true…
Armand Cognetta
“It takes relentless self-discipline to schedule suffering into your day, every day, but if you do, you’ll find that at the other end of that suffering…
Armand Cognetta
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