Happy (Lunar) New Year, ya rats! (Though this story is about 2019, the year of the pig.) As I look back on this year, a clear theme emerges:
Getting out of my comfort…
Yesterday, while out driving, I thought I made a wrong turn. It was an easy fix and I knew what to do, but when I made the “wrong turn” this is what I…
One of my Uber Chronicles stories.
My next ride is to ferry a woman from her home to her tutoring gig (her car has a flat tire) at a nearby learning…
Super lovely party in Annapolis last night. Cj and I have had, from the get-go and still do today, some sort of party-throwing magic going on: he's got the fabulous home, yard and…
For the near-ubiquity social media as a phenomenon, and most certainly a force, experiences today in 2022, it wasn't always this way.
As a matter of fact, it wasn't always this way not too…
There are Dear John, Dear Friends of XYZ Cause and even Dear Abby letters, but have you ever seen a "Dear Millionaire" letter?
I wrote this direct mail piece for a small-but-mighty residential youth…
Sometimes the stars just align. And the moon, full and risen, lights the night. As Life would have it, I got to see Trevor Hall and Nahko (neither of whom I'd heard of…
To all of my GenX friends here, it’s time to become — to acknowledge ourselves as — leaders. It doesn’t matter whether you’re a leader in politics on an issue of local national or international concern; if…
Well this was most certainly an odd moment. I was sitting outside late one evening, talking with a woman I'd recently met.
She started telling me how much she was afraid of toads and…
Doubt I'm the first, nor will I be the last, writer to turn to friends to ask for a book review. Here's what some of my friends had to say after reading one…
Back in the day, when I was trying very much not to get a playa name (a nickname used in the Burning Man community), there was a moment. In this moment, I had…
We can pretend we're all modern and sh*t. We can wall up in our houses, our structures, our vehicles. We can turn the heat on when it's cold and the AC on when…