You Already Know Enough to Start

I spent over a year deciding where to serve at church. Today I find out by showing up.

Oct 11 • Vic Holtreman

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The Easy Choice Costs More

A solo parachute jump, a deadlift I gave up, and the choices I still respect years later.

Oct 4 • Vic Holtreman

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September 2026

Rebuild the Engine. Keep the Lines.

What a 1971 Pontiac LeMans and the Porsche 911 taught me about changing without disappearing.

Sep 27 • Vic Holtreman

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The Captain’s Chair Doesn’t Come With Certainty

Captain Kirk, a move to Puerto Rico, and what decisiveness really requires.

Sep 20 • Vic Holtreman

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102 Minutes

25 years later, the image of September 11 is the Twin Towers burning. For 102 minutes that morning, it kept getting worse.

Sep 13 • Vic Holtreman

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Be Wise. It’s Cheaper.

One correction changed my work within hours. Another took me more than two years to accept.

Sep 6 • Vic Holtreman

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August 2026

I Was 59 and Didn't Own a Can Opener

A 24-year marriage let me outsource half of being an adult. Here's how I got it back.

Aug 30 • Vic Holtreman

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One Asset Nobody Can Take From You

What you’ve lived through may be the most useful thing you can leave behind.

Aug 23 • Vic Holtreman

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You Don't Need the Lightning Bolt

I walked out of church as a kid and stayed out for two decades. What brought me back had no date and no feeling to start it.

Aug 16 • Vic Holtreman

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I Owned the Site and Couldn’t Use It

Two years of analytics missed what one weekend with a PS4 found.

Aug 9 • Vic Holtreman

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Scars Prove You’ve Healed

The difference between repentance and rumination, and why one of them never heals.

Aug 2 • Vic Holtreman

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July 2026

You're Still Lifting for a Man Who No Longer Exists

It took an X-ray of my fused spine to make me retire the deadlift.

Jul 26 • Vic Holtreman

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