May 11, 2025 Have you ever said “yes” to so many people and agreed to so many things, that you feel like that dead guy in the film, Weekend at Bernie’s?  Just bouncing around, being dragged to one grill-out or committee meeting or work-related function after another, while constantly collapsing in the sand and thumping…

May 4, 2025 Have you ever noticed the weird little phenomena that take place when it comes to our behavior and the darker emotions behind it? And what we have to say for ourselves?  For example: digital customers are far more likely to write a negative review than a positive one; or, most people claim…

April 27, 2025 Adolescents used to get bummed out for feeling like a nobody, like there wasn’t anyone who knew they even existed.  Then one day, some lonely soul rubbed a magic iLamp, and the next thing you know we all got personal hand-computers and now everyone knows exactly who everyone is (or at least…

April 20, 2025 “You should really take Nana’s dining room table.  It was the same table from when she was a child, somebody needs to take it, and you’re still eating on top of that gawd-awful patio furniture.”   I used to think that when someone offered me something for free, no matter what their intentions…

April 13, 2025 My partner fell into The Minimalists’s movement around the time we started dating, some sort of a decade and a half ago.  At  that time I couldn’t tell a Podcast from a text message (seriously); and Bluetooth sounded to me like some sort of dental emergency.  I’ve always struggled to keep up…