Hitching a Ride on Spirit
Ever noticed how hard most people try to express their uniqueness? And how everybody takes the same well-worn paths of expression? You get your nose pierced, or your tongue. You get a tat—a highly original one of course—of a butterfly or a Gatling Gun. (Now that would...
Imagine …
Imagine you’re twenty-one-years old. You’ve graduated from college or a trade school. Or maybe you’ve been doing some public service or you’re already out on your own. You know who you are. You know what life is about. You understand the pitfalls of perception your...
Coming Apart at the Seams
I hear it everyday in one form or another: people are frightened because they think the world is coming apart. But hey - we’re looking at the possibility of a US presidential candidate getting elected who has no experience as a politician, no military experience, no...
The “Yes” Life
I just got through re-reading a blog I wrote last year in Greece, commenting on how happy the Greek people are—a condition related to the fact that “Yes” (or “ne” in Greek) seems to be the single-most used syllable in their vocabulary. Since adopting the “Y” word as...
Transgendered or Reincarnated?
A close friend of mine is transgendered, and although she has never desired to take physical actions to match her outside to her inside, (or asked to be called "he" instead of "she") there is no doubt in her mind that she is of the male sex, trapped in the wrong body....
Trumped by His Ego
When former communications director for Trump’s “Make America Great Again” super PAC, Stephanie Cegielski, wrote her open letter denouncing Trump as a protest candidate who never expected the presidency who’s “ego has now taken over the driver’s seat,” she finally hit...
Ego vs Gorilla
Bernie and Hillary went at it in February dissecting progressivism during the debate. But what about the word needs clarification? Even Charles Darwin knew that progress (AKA evolution) is about the deepening and strengthening of moral and social instincts and ethical...
Dealing with Disappointment? No Bloody Marys before 11 am
Writers are experts in disappointment. Day after day, month after month, year after year we sit at our computers in our spare bedroom churning out pitches for articles to editors, book pitches to publishers and agents, pitches for blogs, pitches for reviews of...
Three-two-one
In live television the cameraman counts down the seconds before a reporter goes on-air, saying “five, four, three.” The two and the one are silent finger gestures finishing the countdown. Those last two seconds are rather like freefalling… what will happen next? What...
Railroad Ties and Egos
So I’m hiking along a bike trail next to a canal in the woods. It’s a walk I take frequently – a couple of flat miles each way that gets me off my ass, out of my office chair and upright for a couple hours or so each day. I usually go in the late afternoon, but for...