We’re about to get slammed with a big snowstorm in my part of the world. It’s been one of those winters and you know what? I love it. Winters should be wintry. They should be freezing and have plenty of snow. They should force you to wear layers and warm coats and scarves and all…
Category: Life
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…
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…
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…
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….
2024 Wrapped
This will be my last post of 2024, so it’s a good time to take stock of the year that was for me. I think I’ll make this a regular thing at the end of each year like Spotify does. My Theme for 2024: Transition Every book has a theme–sometimes more than one–and so it…
10 Things I Think I Think On October 24, 2024
It’s fall, my favorite time of year. There’s a nip in the air, and it’s finally jacket weather. Time to break out my favorite clothes, my best shoes, and yes, my favorite cologne. The good shit. The scents I love most that are too heavy for hot weather, but totally crush it in the cool…
Lost and Found in Paris
If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.— Ernest Hemingway The best of America drifts to Paris. The American in Paris is the best American. It is more fun…