The Mud Kingdom

A magical place, an independent spirit.

Category: Personal Blog

  • The Quest, Final

    The Quest, Final

    It’s come to an end. I failed to heal my permanently broken heart. I accept this loss. I still remain. The heart procedure I had in December revealed significant progression of my condition – my hamburger heart. I have since returned to the Rockies as this may be the last season I can tolerate the…

  • The Quest to Heal My Broken Heart

    The Quest to Heal My Broken Heart

    Near the end of 2019, after four years of dragging my body along the trail of life, my physical health had degraded once again leaving me in the waiting room of my cardiologist’s office. The usual battery of tests could only tell them that something was wrong enough to convince my health insurance to pay…

  • Personal Blog: 2023-11 Administrative Results

    Personal Blog: 2023-11 Administrative Results

    It’s been about a year since I took off in the Beast on my quest to cure my permanently broken heart. I want to tell you that I did the best I could. I want to tell you that I made some progress…

  • Personal Blog: 2023-08 My Quest

    Personal Blog: 2023-08 My Quest

    I confided in an old friend my misgivings about spending a year traveling across the country, conceding that it would damage my career, my finances, and my future earning potential. She told me it was alright so long as I knew what I was doing. I didn’t have the heart to tell her directly, but…

  • Personal Blog: 2023-03 The Beast

    Personal Blog: 2023-03 The Beast

    I have been on a journey since I left Virginia back in November. From my old hometown of Herndon, VA, I packed my belongings into a small U-Haul van and drove up to Philadelphia, PA to pick up and move into my home on wheels. From there I crossed the American Midwest through Columbus, OH…

  • Personal (B)log: 2022-12 Change Request

    Personal (B)log: 2022-12 Change Request

    When I returned home from a month on the road at the end of July, I decided to sell out. I mean that in a lot of different ways. I sold my belongings that wouldn’t fit in a van. I sold my house. I even sold the domain name to my blog (mudkingdom.com is dead,…