I joined the gym to weight train; hopefully, without becoming a gym asshole. You know the type of which I speak. It’s a wide demographic — from men to women, young and old, fit and not. Mainly, though, they are young, fit men and they put the mirrors to good use while they sweat and…

Motivation is a strange thing. It is very personal and what works for one person doesn’t necessarily for the other. Interestingly, I find that motivation is interwoven with emotion. One can be motivated by love just as easily as hate or happiness as well as grief. Rage and revenge are excellent motivators — for me,…

My last few blahgs have been a little dark — dark enough that I got at least a couple of welfare calls to see how I was doing. I was merely taking advantage of my artistic license, being overly dramatic, I guess. I’m #FINE, by the way. Tonight I write about something that makes me…

“You are one of the strongest people I know.” A friend said this to me yesterday and, like a Phoenix from the ashes, I rose to accept the compliment that didn’t feel entirely true in the moment. There are a million types of strength so I’m not sure in which way her comment applied to…

I just binged on a show where the husband dies and the grieving widow comes to find that the husband had been cheating on her for the last year of their marriage. The marriage wasn’t perfect but she definitely had no idea anything was going on. The writers included flashbacks that re-visited scenes we’d already…

My dad was telling me a story and, in it, was describing that he was standing in line at a hardware store with my brother. My brother is loud, out-going, friendly, kind, and always joking and laughing. My dad said that my brother had turned to the people behind them and struck up a conversation….