COVID-19 has changed our world. Understatement of the year, huh? In a year, the way we travel (or not), the way we work, the way we learn, the way we shop, the way we interact with one another…and the way we eat out. I could quote the statistics of how…

This year will mark my fifty-second orbit around the sun. I’m kind of shocked, to be quite frank. I expected to be dead in a puddle of vomit by forty. (Mine or someone else’s) But here I am, in (relatively) good health and (questionable) sound mind. So I have decided…

(Disclaimer: I realize more than a few of the questions already have answers, and in some cases, multiple answers. This is because I gotta come up with 750 words and not all my ideas are Pulitzer worthy, OKAY?) I am on occasion, either through irritation, inspiration or both, compelled to…

Good question. I don’t think there’s any one definitive answer that really says it. To quote the Joker, if I have to have a past, then I prefer it to be multiple choice. There’s the requisite stock answer, which is I am blah blah blah, and I’m from blah blah…

Sometimes, you just have to let it all burn… It was in the absolute darkest period of my life that I found meaning and purpose. Even now, as I write these words, I feel the tears welling up in my eyes, remembering where I once was. I lost everything. In…

I honestly wish I could tell you how this works… I am, at 48, starting all over again. Seven years ago, I was homeless and emotionally broken. Some of it was my fault. Some of it was just bad luck. I was not capable of much, other than watching my…

Like most people, I enjoy a good meal and a good drink. — Like most people, I also enjoy good music. Not long ago, I wondered about the relationship between the two. It happened when I was in a restaurant. The food was excellent, but it was difficult for me to enjoy it because in the middle of the day, someone had put…