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…
While there are many phases of childhood development, we can take the 0-21 years of childhood and divide them into chunks of three for interesting insights into how generations are formed.
0-7 years…
Generations, like people, move through four distinct phases of life, each of which is approximately 21 years in length. When people (and generations) transition from one phase of life to the next, society…
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…
Awww. Here's me and my mom, Eileen. Back in the early days of my prior contra-dance obsession, at one of the themed balls (mid-aughts).
Hah! I still have that gown, and I still wear…
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…