by Darrin Johnson | May 24, 2018 | Health and Wellness, Lifestyle, Ruelon, Spirituality, Travel
Gut wrenching laughter with friends by poolside bars, creating new connections with vibrant personalities from Canada, England, and Brazil, and anxiously awaiting the opening of beachside jerk chicken huts, may mean that one is on vacation. For many people, this time...
by Darrin Johnson | Apr 28, 2018 | Health and Wellness, Lifestyle, Ruelon
It was early afternoon on a surprisingly mild, spring day in northern New Jersey. I was deciding whether to get a gym workout in, or stay at home plotting my world domination. Okay maybe that last part was a bit dramatic because it was more like I pulled a muscle...
by Darrin Johnson | Apr 6, 2018 | Health and Wellness, Lifestyle, Ruelon
“Summer breeze, makes me feel fine, blowing through the Jasmine in my mind.” Did I lose you with an unfamiliar reference? If so, for all you one genre and era music listeners, these are lyrics from the feel good 1971 hit Summer Breeze by Seals and Crofts. I remember...
by Darrin Johnson | Mar 30, 2018 | Health and Wellness, Lifestyle, Ruelon
Woman crush Wednesday’s aren’t just for straight men anymore. Move over Macho Teyana Taylor admirers, there are new sherrifs in town who are competing for likes on Instagram. They aren’t your homies but rather a covert group of gay men that are inching their way into...
by Darrin Johnson | Feb 23, 2018 | Health and Wellness, Lifestyle, Ruelon, Travel
Spring is right around the corner and most of us have already booked some much needed time away from the hustle and bustle. As we take on the daunting task of planning our fun in the sun, here are 5 helpful tips you can use to ensure that your attention to detail post...
by Darrin Johnson | Feb 21, 2018 | Health and Wellness, Lifestyle, Ruelon
All that glitters isn’t gold my mother used to say. I remember she would express this sentiment when I was stuck comparing myself to the lives of others. Although I didn’t quite understand the meaning when I was a child, it would hit me like enormous waves pounding on...
by Darrin Johnson | Feb 17, 2018 | Health and Wellness, Lifestyle, Ruelon
Real men don’t eat salads! Apparently, this was an unwritten rule I must have missed while being asleep during toxic masculinity 101 in high school. That last part was not a real class, but the savvy reader that you are got the implied sarcasm right? A colleague...
by Darrin Johnson | Feb 12, 2018 | Fitness, Health and Wellness, Lifestyle, Ruelon, Spirituality
Comparison is the thief of joy. I’ve heard this saying for the first time over the summer from a mentor and it seemed to haunt me ever since. It’s not that I haven’t heard some form of this concept before but it was something about the thief part that vexed me. The...
by Darrin Johnson | Jan 26, 2018 | Fitness, Health and Wellness, News, Ruelon
I wasn’t concerned about the lighting tonight. It was not about taking a million selfies, only to weed out the bad ones. These last few photographs were about me seeing myself in all my gynecamastia glory for the very last time. I wanted a snapshot of what got me to...
