Today I am amused and bemused. Today I am settled and unsettled. Today I am bored and stressed out. The mind is numbed. Yet, emotions running wild and thoughts streaming away on their own. I’m a runaway freight train with no will to stop. I want to hide. […]
Taking three steps forward The ghosts of love walk in line with me Two steps back the ghosts of slights impede my path The ghosts of failure try to ridicule The ghosts of comfort try to embrace Too many ghosts to track It’s easy to go wayward The […]
I’m tired. I don’t know whether I gained or lost an hour. I tossed and turned. I had even napped. Yet, I’m tired. I’m groggy and foggy, although not soggy. My mind is rattled. All over the place. Time change does that. Inertia does that. The weight of […]
Not roadkill Not a bystander Not strewn garbage Not a punching bag Not a meal ticket Not an afterthought Not your first draft Not your baggage keeper Not your line in the sand Not your battlecry Not a love song Not your collateral damage
I’m going to go out on a limb and note that I cannot stand lies. We all lie. Small lies. Big lies. Whoppers. Lies that have little to no consequences (other than to your conscience) and lies that have a major butterfly effect. As someone out in the […]
Many are calling this the resignation economy. I too have used such a phrase in my presentations. However, that phrase doesn’t quite capture what is occuring right here and now. There are, for lack of a better word or phrase, certain cosmic imbalances. Potential employers seeking too much […]
For some reason, these three quotes have been running around my mind. Percolating. Stewing. Brewing. To live life to the fullest, there are different tools and frames of mind to step into. Life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved, except in memory. Lenord […]
So much of everyday life is staged. After twenty years of living with the Kardashians, we have some insight into the extent to which people are willing to say things that seem authentic to enhance their bottom line. With them we’ve had years upon years of manufactured drama […]
I love Halloween. Or I used to. Now I like, like Halloween. As a kid, Halloween was a bit creepy with those plastic masks. Do you remember these? Boy, we were big on full on non-breathable masks back then. While creepy, they were still fun. In New York, […]
As a superstitious New Yorker I was taught at an early age, to not kill spiders. Killing a spider inevitably brings bad luck. And, who needs that these days? I see a spider I try to get it to move along. Don’t get me wrong I’m not looking […]