How miserable everyone is. A global pandemic, political and cultural unrest, economic struggles - the list of challenges is seemingly endless. Makes you want to stop the planet and get off, doesn't it? I remember similar days when I didn't want to get out of bed, when I couldn't escape the deluge of negative thoughts. [...]

Words are increasingly difficult to find. I stare at this blank screen unable to articulate what continues to unfold here. Perhaps they will come. In most cases, they don't, or I delete the ones that do. If they do, you'll be reading this :-) I can attest, yet again, that if you persist in this [...]

Man oh man, did you hear about.....? And depending on what comes next, we're off and running with our passionately held opinions on the subject. I think they call it 'triggered' these days. The more volatile the topic, the stronger our opinions. "Who do they think they are?!" "What is happening to this world?!" "We [...]

In this thing called life, chaos can erupt on a micro or macro level; in our own immediate lives, or on a national or even global stage; as a cancer of the body, or a cancer of the culture. It's all the same in the sense that it stirs up fear, anxiety, anger. There are [...]

As an experiment, I recently shared a 50-minute video of two ER physicians / immunologists who have been on the front lines battling COVID. They offered up loads of data demonstrating that, regardless of where you look in the world, COVID mortality rates are pretty much in line with the seasonal flu. Are the doctors [...]

True surrender is 'thy will,' not mine, isn't it? Isn't surrender in its purest form an acknowledgment that the I doing the surrendering hasn't got a clue how it got here or where it's going and that nobody else out there is going to be able to help either? True surrender is 100% Grade A, [...]

So here we are. The world panics, gobs of people grow ill and die, and everywhere comes the question, "When can we return to real life?" or, similarly, "When will we get back to normal?" To which I think, "Why?" Years ago when my ex-wife returned from her six-week stint in a posh upstate New [...]

A comedian once said the surest way to keep the seat beside you empty was, when asked if it was taken, to answer: "Nope, just me and God." Guaranteed that the interloper will keep moving, joked the comedian. Only it's not really a joke, is it? God has become the crazy uncle we keep hidden [...]

Our son has reached that age where he's starting to mainline some of the same shows we do. The other day he completed HBO's 'Silicon Valley,' a funny little 6-season series following the trials and tribulations of a tech startup. Despite loving the show, our son was a bit disappointed by its conclusion. The reason? [...]

A popular mobile game called Wordscapes requires players to create an exhaustive list of words from a handful of letters in order to solve an associated crossword puzzle. Since I fancy myself something of a wordsmith, I try to create all of the words by gazing only at the available letters and averting my eyes [...]