Okay, here goes. The first semaphore flag is planted in the sand. Out of respect for those of you who, with damned good reason, are sick and tired of those endless invites to follow, pay for a membership, blah, blah, this is kinda that, but not that. Bear with me here. A while back, I stated that I was going to start…

A perfect sweet of a movie reveals what could heal us, but first we have to succumb to enchantment One of the most marvelous gifts of art, whether it’s cooking or making movies, is how art heals us if we would but just let it. The current spate of modern-day book burning among deeply ignorant and fearful parents speaks to the unspeakable lack of joy in such lives, and…

Yeah, it sounds like clickbait. But it isn’t. There’s nothing like starting an article with a chip on your shoulder (Yah, yah, here it comes, another perfect health sales pitch about detox teas…) and realizing you’re dead wrong. I can’t speak for you but that kind of realization effing makes my day. Why? Because realizing I’m dead wrong…

The pursuit of unhappiness, especially your own. Please kindly don’t show up at my house. But wait, there’s more. During some research for another article, I came across a bit of intriguing information about a rather little-known psychiatric disorder that might explain some of what I’m seeing on Medium and elsewhere. The disorder is called Cherophobia, which is when a person has an irrational aversion to being happy.

No matter what the anti-aging package promises, you and I WILL expire Here are some excellent preparations for the next adventure, with my blessings. First, this: The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying: The Spiritual Classic & International Bestseller: Revised and… Amazon.com: The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying: The Spiritual Classic & International Bestseller: Revised and Updated…www.amazon.com My dear friend Melissa, who has long been my Thai masseuse, is a dedicated reader of such texts. She and I both study and stumble through Buddhism, collecting Buddhas the same way others collect stamps. Because…

My Spanish may be awful, but beauty is the same in any language Getting on my horse was the hard part. With my left hand bound up like a boxing glove, I couldn’t use it to grasp a bit of mane for leverage. Still, I got my leg over, settled in and in moments we were off up the winding, rocky road: Erin…

I am a few hours away from doing what I said I might do two years ago. Now it’s very real Six weeks were all it took for me to completely strip and prep my house for sale. Yesterday the handyman and my realtor walked the place, and her housekeeper comes this weekend while I head to Colombia to start looking for a place to rent part of the year. GAH…

For those of us who have braved the waves of idiocy over the years, The Verge calls it what it is: a series of awful screwups as Ev bows out, leaving an unholy mess Don’t listen to me. Read this: Why Medium failed Platformer is an independent newsletter from Casey Newton that follows the intersection of Silicon Valley and…www.theverge.com My views are up, way up in the last month and earnings continue to go down. That’s a failure.

A key to clutter, and why stuff becomes too precious to use, but too important to lose Just under a month ago, when I first got back from my five weeks overseas, I picked up a single item off my coffee table and took it downstairs. Four hours later, well past my bedtime, my inner engine was going full steam, as I methodically stripped all the walls…