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 …
The Bible Experiment: What Do We Do Now?
When I was eight years old my family started going to church. There I discovered something that changed my life. I was immediately smitten—head over heels captivated. And nothing has changed to this day. What I found there, I love …
Make Your First Movie Now
I’ve been putting off writing this blog for quite some time. “I’ve been very busy. I have more important things to do. And who really cares?” are all excuses I’ve used for my procrastination. To some degree, those excuses are …
Hum With Me
my world is loud. a chaotic symphony. a stew of noise. i’m a glutton for babel. a junkie for acclaim. i’ve both soared and starved. felt rich then poor. but there have been moments… of unexpected respite. and melodic quiet. …
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 …
Cherry Headwind
Every now and again I can feel my brain pathways getting overgrown with monotonous weeds and cobwebs. Too much scrolling through Instagram, Tumblr, news sites leaves my neurons foggy. So I have to go weed whacking. New paths need to …
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 …
Help!
Help. It’s a word that evokes many different emotions. How do you feel about asking people for help? How do you feel when people ask you for help? My guess is that for many of us the answer is the …