Making Bets My Body Can’t Cash Four weeks ago, adding yet another chapter to the great history of bad decisions that is my life, I made a bet with my…
The Water is Tomorrow and Tomorrow is the Day Every day for the last year I’ve been telling myself that tomorrow’s the day. Tomorrow’s the day that my body will heal and this…
On My Last Nerve It’s been a long time. Hard to believe how long. Could it really be three and a half years? 1267 days? That number doesn’t…
Battling Chronic Nerve Pain – Two Steps Forward, One Step Back So I screwed up. Against my better judgment, I took my doctor’s advice and tried another med to combat the chronic nerve pain in my esophagus…
Learning Social Media in Your 40s Ok, so I’m a bit of a Luddite. At the turn of the century, I was the last person I knew to get a…
Tales from the Landlord: The Nephew I run a small real estate development company, which means I can’t afford any full-time employees. I can sub out some of the building…
A Dead Man’s Checks Every month I get paid by a dead man. This has been going on since October of 2014, when one of my former tenants…
Is Anyone Just About the Writing Anymore? Growing up, my dad used to warn me that if I wanted to be a writer, I better be prepared to be broke. That…
The Hardest Mountain I used to think I was pretty tough because I had climbed some big mountains and gone on some pretty wild adventures. I took…
Families That Bike Together… Sweat Together? There was one holiday commercial this winter everyone was talking about. Cheesy and painful to watch, it portrayed a young woman expressing overwhelming gratitude…