The Antidote We Need in a Time of Cancel Culture and Isolation — Our lives are often built in pursuit of comfort (which we confuse for happiness). We seek comfortable salaries and jobs, placating friends and cultivating an existence where everything is just so. We create our bubble. We are safe. As long as things go exactly as we’d like, we’re fine. And…

Wars, Layoffs, Recession, Inflation, Post Covid life… it’s all… a lot. So what do we do? My friend Tyler, who is an erudite writer and brilliant entrepreneur, has a very succinct catch phrase he uses whenever things aren’t great: “Feels bad.” If the cake just collapsed in the oven, “feels bad.” If you lost a bet, “feels bad.” If the economy…

Several years ago, I thought I knew all I needed to about anxiety. I had been in a series of high powered jobs, probably needed to exercise more and could benefit with more therapy. Then I began attempting to remedy my anxiety and found a curious dilemma… it wasn’t getting…

On Faith, Doubt and Reaching for Symbolism When Nothing Makes Sense Foundation. I have always been someone prone to research and investigation. Well, perhaps that’s not entirely true. Raised in a very fundamentalist household, critical thinking would not become my strong suit until my early 20s. As a child then teenager, I generally just went along with whatever my parents did because…

Saying goodbye to a friend and to my dog We adopted our dog Eno the day after my friend, Ikey died in 2014. Isaiah “Ikey” Owens was a gravely-voiced, bespectacled musician that I had come up with in Long Beach, California. Our bands would play local shows at ramshackle venues in town. My music career had become an array…

When our digital selves die, does a part of our selves die too? As an early adopter (and later regretter), I’ve always kept old social accounts as memory albums of sorts. Definitely not as secure as an external hard drive, however I figured it was a decent solution. …

A revision of my 2013 piece In 2013, I wrote this NYE intention ceremony piece after discovering a journal entry for 12/31/12 where I had listed my goals for 2013. By the end of 2013, I realized I achieved all of them minus a few odds and ends that were…

Not every thing or every one, including ourselves, needs to stick around forever. As a kid, my family moved around a lot. Five elementary schools in five years. By the fifth one, I had evolved into quite an eccentric child. I was great at being alone and amusing myself with crafts, music or education. (My teachers loved me.) But I found it so…

Part of the Great Exhaustion Series — Happy Halloween all.* Today’s piece is a continuation in the Great Exhaustion series. In my last post, I shifted the series to begin to look at how we can “un-exhaust” ourselves. I detailed the Power of No and how embracing that power helps you hone your Inner Yes. …