March 2, 2025 “Who cares if she doesn’t like you?  Does everybody in the entire world have to like you?” George Costanza’s girlfriend asks him. He replies without hesitation, as if she’s the crazy one, “Yes! Everybody has to like me! I must be liked!”  and we all laugh because “George is gettin’ upset” that…

February 23, 2025       A Whole New World It feels like people are more frequently late for appointments than ever, that is if they haven’t already rescheduled the event for another time in the imaginary future.   I’m not sure when this began occurring, probably when we could start jumping in on Zoom…

by Zachary Gorsuch February 16, 2025 In recent years there have been a lot of nets casted by authors, influencers, gurus, pundits, brand ambassadors, and ehem, bloggers that are threaded with a particular fabric of advice designed to help us deal with other people in a certain proactive, contrived way: the art of seducing people, how to…

by Zachary Gorsuch February 8, 2025 About 15 years ago I was in my late twenties; still boozing hard, smoking cigarettes, getting high and getting softer by the day, or as some may insist on calling it, fat.  Back then I complained more, listened less, had a childish temperament and was as lazy as a…

by Zachary Gorsuch February 2, 2025 The sink is overflowing, the dog is barking, there is cereal everywhere, the baby is crying, you have no idea where the other one is, whatever was in the oven is now smoking, which has set off the fire alarm…annnd, that’s when your bread-winning spouse walks in the door…