I don’t know what it is, but I’m feeling myself right now in a way I never have before in my life. Like really feeling myself, as if something finally clicked into place and shit is about to get a lot easier for me, after a good decade and a half of feeling like I’m…
2025 Wrapped
Here we are, my last post of 2025. Per annual tradition, it’s time to take stock of the year that was for me. My Theme for 2025: Mortality Last year was all about transition. Moving from one emotional state to another. Partnered to single. Anxious to more secure. Unconscious to conscious. Wounded to therapized and…
Down by the Danube
Just back from my trip to Budapest and Vienna, and since jet lag had me awake at 4 a.m. yesterday and 5 a.m. this morning, I’m stealing these gifted hours to bang out a few hopefully-not-too-addled thoughts about my latest travels. This will not be the most coherent post I’ve ever written, but F it….
Zen and the Art of Maintaining Your Peace
One of my favorite Black Mirror episodes is “White Christmas”, which features the handsome and talented Jon Hamm, seen above in the nirvanic ending to Mad Men. Like every Black Mirror episode, “White Christmas” explores the impact of technology on human relationships, how it changes us and our world in ways we never anticipated. What…
10 Things I Think I Think on October 13, 2025
It’s Columbus Day or Indigenous People’s Day or American Genocide Day (I like to cover all the bases), so it seems like a good time to drop some quick and dirty thoughts I’m currently having. Haven’t done this in a while. 1. In a dark world, my daughter’s generation gives me hope. M. and I…
The Wonderful World of Selective Empathy
As I’ve written before, I haven’t been a practicing Christian for many years. I won’t regurgitate my reasons again, but I handed in my Catholic Club membership card way back in my 30s. This doesn’t mean that I jettisoned my Christian values along with all that dogma and patriarchy, however, because I didn’t. While I…
Prague
Just returned from my trip to Prague – I want to share my thoughts about it while they’re still fresh in my mind, so there will be no over-editing in this post. Unlike my trip to Paris last year, this wasn’t a return to the past, or a restoration of Self, or an exercise in…
Nonna’s House
In November 2009, my Italian grandmother died after suffering a bad fall in her apartment from which she never recovered. Because she lived in Italy and I lived in the United States, I didn’t get to see her often, but we were extremely close due to my many visits to Italy and her intermittent visits to the U.S….
10 Things I Think I Think on July 26, 2025
It’s the dog days of summer. Hot as fuck. Can barely move. No energy for a preamble. Let’s just get into it. 1. Death keeps rearing its ugly head. One of my upstairs neighbors died last week. He was one of two brothers who lived together as roommates. Don’t really know the history there. Apparently…
True Believers
There’s a type of person I’ve always been interested in. Even admired. The kind of person who believes in something so strongly that they’re willing to put everything on the line for it, including their own life. The kind of person who is willing to die for a cause. It takes courage to do that….