People, Places, & Things

I came of age in the '70s and, through that initial stretch of mid-to-late puberty and into early adulthood, I dressed like the...

It may not seem like it but maintaining one's Urban Hermit status requires a great deal of effort and commitment. To be good at...

In the introduction to my first book, I made a general observation about the human species; "At our core, the primal driving forces...

As he came into view, with his head down and not looking around at cars or other people, my neighbor approached – right on schedule – as if it was just like any other day of the week, month, or year. In that moment two truths became crystal clear to me : 1. The only thing in life that is absolute is death. 2. The best lives are those spent fighting to disprove rule # 1.

Whether it be fate, karma,destiny, divine intervention... or some combination of them all... maybe - just maybe - all any of us can do is just follow the path we find ourselves on regardless whether we were looking for it or just fell down face first in front of it.

Remember Godfather Part 3, when Eli Wallach (Don Altobello) hires a father-son team of assassins to kill Michael? He starts off his pitch by...

This like a gift from the Almighty Himself!

All that kept playing in my head was the advice he had given me at our last appointment. And it came out of me before I even realized I was thinking about saying it out loud.

I did an entry 7 years ago (I was completely gobsmacked to discover that it had been that long ago) in which I described...

I did a piece recently, reminiscing about my long-passed Aunt Carrie ("A Cane, A Hatchet, And A Corncob Pipe") and some of the wisdom...