I could write a whole entry about all the times I have sat down to write a blog post and gotten interrupted by something else. On the plus side, I have yet to get bored since I moved out to …
Alone on the Jumbotron
People fight like hell to avoid loneliness. Growing up in suburban Cincinnati, the idea of spending time alone in public made me squirm. I don’t remember the first time I ate alone in a restaurant, but it had to be …
A More Fulfilling Life
A month ago, I lived in a small apartment in the center of a mid-sized city in the Midwest, in the hippest neighborhood, steps from some of my favorite bars and restaurants, blocks from my friends, a mile from the …
Do the Work
I have always found something strangely fascinating about listening to old comedians rehash their early days playing dive clubs for pennies, shacking up with seven other guys in a New York studio apartment, or getting their first big break opening …
Are You Career Happy? Do You Wanna Be?
And by Career Happy, I mean, “Skipping to the Shower on Mondays” Happy? On a scale of 1 to 10, let’s call that a 10. Or are your Sundays an exercise in the knot in your stomach building, a sense …
Living
I stumbled across a quote by Ernest Hemingway approximately five years ago that has haunted my writing—in both Casper the Friendly Ghost ways and Poltergeist ways ever since. Hemingway said, “In order to write about life, first you must live …