Jeremy C Kester

Jeremy C Kester

converting caffeine into words

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  • Novels
    • The Good Teacher
    • Remember the Yorktown (Gravity 1)
    • The Dangerous Life of Agnes Pyle
  • short stories
    • Into Fire’s Den
    • Farm Life Lost
  • PoemsPoems by Jeremy C Kester
    • Change of Seasons: Selected Poems
    • varied degrees of darkness: selected poems
  • Missing the Off-ramp

    Persistence is key. Or so that’s the thought. Years have been passing like mile markers on a long drive across the states. With those years it feels like the opportunities that were once there have passed too, destinations that revealed themselves right as the car passed the off-ramp. It was as though the sight of…

    Jeremy C Kester

    December 11, 2020
    Blog
    goals, life, persistance, writing, writing craft, writinglife
  • 5am Start

    Nearly two weeks have passed since deciding on a change. For two weeks I’ve been waking up at 5am every day. No matter what. Even on the weekends, that time when adults and children alike can shun the disciplines of daily life. I opt to instead shove myself out of bed, two and a half…

    Jeremy C Kester

    December 9, 2020
    Blog
    discipline, health, life, sleep, sleep apnea, writerslife, writing, writing discipline
  • Be Disciplined

    I saved the best for last. Well… it’s not the best so much as one of the toughest of the four statements that I write every day in my journal. Like I said in my prior three posts, right after I dump myself out of bed, get dressed, and then start the coffee maker (which…

    Jeremy C Kester

    December 8, 2020
    Blog
    discipline, journaling, life, life lessons, mantra, philosophy, stoic, stoicism
  • Be The Example

    There are four things that are written into my journal at the start of each day. When I finish pulling myself out of bed, getting dressed, and then starting the coffee maker, I open up my journal and begin writing. Four statements must go down onto paper first. I wrote about the first the other…

    Jeremy C Kester

    December 7, 2020
    Blog
    journaling, life, life lessons, parenting, philosophy, stoic, stoicism
  • Writing Will Set Me Free

    On the heels of the post I made the other day about the first thing that I write in my journal each day, I decided to share the next three statements too. Together, it makes the first four statements that I write each day in my journal before anything else is done (short of getting…

    Jeremy C Kester

    December 6, 2020
    Blog
    independent writing, journaling, life, philosophy, stoic, stoicism, writing, writing life
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