Once again, I find myself leaving behind the empty spaces. Each time I’ve done this in the past, he has felt like closing a chapter on my life. This time, however, instead of being forced to change paths by circumstance and misfortune, I am beginning the next chapter on my own terms. For the last […]
Over the course of my life, I’ve been given a lot of good advice and a lot of really, really bad advice. I could share some of the good advice with all of you, but I won’t because I’m a dick. Instead, I’m going to share with you some of the worst career advice I’ve […]
Forty days from today, I turn 30. It isn’t really a big deal. Being 30 is not really any different from being 29, but, there is a metaphorical and spiritual significance tied to it that I’m just not allowed to ignore. I think that in many ways, I’ve been postponing my real adultifying until my […]
Many of you know, that I prefer to think of myself as a bearded burly man. The truth of this is that I hate shaving. I’ve never been one to keep it up regularly. I’ve also never had a job that required me to be clean shaven. I liked my beard, and it seems that […]
Just about everyone I know has kids. Interestingly enough, almost all of them have kids of very similar ages. I’m pretty sure someone was putting something in the water. I’m eternally the odd-man-out in this regard. I do not have kids. I do not need to have kids. I’ve learned a couple of very great things about […]
There is an episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer (I’m a huge Whedon Fan if you didn’t know) called “Band Candy.” In the episode the Band sells the aforementioned candy as part of a fund raiser without ever knowing that it was secretly enchanted to revert them all to their teenage selves. Hilarity and Drama […]
On the best of days, it would be a generous statement to say that I’m just a little bit bonkers. I mean, on average it wouldn’t be inappropriate to expect me to be secretly on the run from men in white jackets that want to take me back to the nice, cozy room with the […]
