

URGENT TASK...Two-Week Life Redesign
I’m like you and everyone we both know. I have an incredibly stressful job. On any given day, I have executives who want speeches or...


Why do I do what I do, not what I want to do?
I want to be a writer. I want to create all day. I want to extricate myself from the minutia of suburban drudgery so I can live in a...


Beers and Archeology
Jim Merkl and a really old rock Earlier this week, I met Jim at Brink, a College Hill microbrewery close to where he and his wife Julie...


The Source of the Magic
Recently, I read a story in The Atlantic about the origins of some of contemporary music’s most popular songs. In Hit Charade, Nathanial...


"...with liberty (and security) and justice for all."
Another day in America, another massacre. Not a fan of background checks? Feeling good about the success of all those good guys with guns...


Mamma Stella
Pardon any typos. It was a long night. Two days ago, Anna brought home a young, dirty, abandoned mutt. The dog was a stray, found...