What Misery Is This?
I Believe… [Pivot]
...that the secret to a successful day is the flexibility to pivot when things go sideways.
Notes from the Post-It Wall | Week of May 26, 2024
Truth is a shared experience with vastly different outcomes.
The Lack of Hope Is the Disease (Redux)
Oh, yeah? Another mass shooting? How terribly desensitized we’re becoming to this trend.
I Believe… [Laughing at Tragedy]
...that the purpose of the comedy mask is to be jeering and cracking up at the tragedy mask.
On Turning 45 | In Search of Balance
Change can be tough, but change is proof of life. For some of these changes, it felt that I was not at the wheel driving them, but locked in the trunk of my own car as it barreled down life’s highway. Still, change happened because life happened. And that’s good.
Notes from the Post-it Wall | Week of May 19, 2024
Love is treating someone the way they want to be treated even when they don’t deserve it.
Building an Apartment
The apartment is coming together.
A hodgepodge of childish scribbles and posters.
Hand-me-down furniture with a teenager’s baby bite marks sunk in— A permanent reminder of aging youth.
The Pursuit of Happiness in a FunEmployment World (REDUX)
The pursuit of happiness is inextricably wrapped up in the inevitable that sometimes you will fail in your pursuit. The pursuit of happiness often comes with great sadness and obstacles you encounter trying to attain your dream.
When an Ex Reaches Out (REDUX)
I was contacted by an ex the other day via email. Not an ex-girlfriend. Those remain, thankfully, quiet, likely steeped in their own lives thinking of me only by accident when their children or partner annoy them.
I Believe… [The Real Golden Rule]
...that treating people with the same respect you would like for yourself isn’t difficult as long as you don’t expect the same treatment in return.
Notes from the Post-it Wall | Week of May 12, 2024
Going through two consecutive green lights without having to even take your foot off the gas during morning rush hour (and while slightly speeding) is evidence that the gods sometimes love you.
I'm Mad as Hell and I Don't Know If I Can Take It Anymore
I Believe… [Haircut Reboot]
...that a haircut is a low rent reboot of the self.
The Worst Mother in the World
Notes from the Post-it Wall | Week of May 5, 2024
At this point, liberals and Jews who still blindly stand behind Benjamin Netanyahu are as baffling to me as MAGA acolytes.
Is Seinfeld On to Something or Is He Just an Old Man Barking at the Kids in His Yard?
The thing Seinfeld seems to miss is that without those factions telling us all what to say and think, there is no need for the subversive comic.
[Redux] Body Shaming Confession
I have been guilty of body shaming, too.
I Believe… [Old Age]
...that old age as a concept has little to do with the slowing of the body and far more to do with the decay of curiosity.
Anti-War or Anti-Bored?
…most protests are performative cosplay, or mass meet-ups of the angry, the radical, the lonely or the misinformed.
Jake and Caroline’s first date was at The Whistler. They talked about Ronnie, how much they loved The Diplomat, and debated the better ride-share service, Uber or Lyft. She was Uber, he was Lyft. They got wasted on Sazeracs and had sex at her apartment. It was incredible for both of them. Caroline stopped taking sex advice from Ronnie.