The anchors holding back better relationships. — Thinking about the things I can LIVE without is easy. I’m intensely unfond of clowns, raisins, and the Beatles. My idea of hell involves a creepy grown man in makeup with oversized shoes singing “Hey Jude” while holding a tray of cookies loaded with those revolting shrunken grapes. Fortunately, it’s…

Nudity, advertising, alcoholism, and 10 other guys I won’t mention — I realized the other day that I spend a substantial amount of time naked thinking about the guy on the right of the photo. This iconic image lives on the wall in my bathroom, and I’m inexplicably drawn to this particular character with a bottle in hand. The photo hangs right behind my toilet, so you might say that my connection with him is rather intimate.

Nothing bad has ever happened to you precisely as you imagined. — The crack cocaine of Greek philosophy and Stoicism for me is a concept called ‘premeditatio malorum.” It is a dog Latin term for the ‘pre-meditation of evils,’ which is essentially a deliberate practice of carving out time in the day to contemplate worst-case scenarios so that your mind would be…

The best thing on the entire Internet on 8/6/2021 at 3:17 PM PST Tune into this guy and thank me later. Most of the internet is like using an ice cream scooper in a cat litter box. As soon as you hear the click, you know you are not being served up with something delicious. This is not…

And 4 other awful phases that tell you your relationships are whispering for an upgrade. — “I love you just the way you are.” If you were a caged bird, you would hear this song of resignation from the bird in the crate next to you. Not to be mistaken by the patient tolerance that nurturing friendships have while you test your wings, more often than not, the person who “loves you just the…

This is the most interesting story I have ever written “ive never felt more degraded, ashamed, embarrassed, angry or sad. F ALASKA AIRLINES!” — Sierra Steadman on Tiktok The immodesty police accosted a young woman on a recent Alaska Airlines flight and rudely and forcefully asked to cover up what…

Contemplations on revenge, justice, and insecticide — The axe forgets, but the tree remembers — African Proverb The time is around 9:30 PM when I make my usual trip to the backyard to retrieve the cat for the safety of the indoors overnight from under the juniper tree, as is her usual evening haunt. She’ll whine and…

We can choose to let our totems motivate or mock us — Meet Chip. I’ve taken one selfie in my entire life, and you can find it in your click here. If I were to buy one, that means that the ROI on a selfie stick would be precisely the cost divided by one. A friend of mine made this bobblehead for me many…

The nettlesome truths that destroy first drafts The inconvenience of “It.” Write something from your experience. If you’ve never seen it, and you’ve been writing at any exertion at all, you probably never will. Write anything that shades the page beyond the pale, and you will see it if you are capable of looking…