Day 95
There's this thing I do: I really, really hate something, and then it ends up becoming one of my favorite things in life. Examples: The poems of Sylvia Plath The Hoodoo Gurus Running Kale Yoga I am...
View ArticleDay 831: Let Me Direct Your Attention Over Here…
Hey sober party people, non-party people, and people who just want to put in a quick appearance at the party so they get credit for showing up and then make a beeline for the car-- I've published an...
View ArticleDay 860: Want Not
I've published a new essay over on Medium. It's about the many things that did not get me sober (hypnosis, meditation, sex, making an otter out of felt, etc.--you know, the standard stuff) and the one...
View ArticleDay 1,107: YJ + TY KU = WTFF
There are two things in life I love: yoga, and being judgmental. So when Laura and Holly alerted me to Yoga Journal's big new heavily promoted advertorial partnership with TY KU Sake, aka "The Official...
View ArticleDay 1,495: Stonewall
Someone was rude to me in a work meeting last week and I called him on it. It wasn't a big drama. He cast a condescending aspersion, I calmly corrected it and requested he not do that again, he...
View ArticleDay 1,826: In This World, There is a Kind of Painful Progress
A friend of 20+ years called last night. You could say it's been a complicated relationship, the same way you could say Mt. Rainier is a pretty big hill. We've hurt each other at times like only two...
View ArticleDay 2,414: A Moment of Monstrous Grace
I laughed yesterday at the start of this otherwise long, dark chat with a friend freaking out over, you know, the possibly post-Constitutional state the United States is entering. ‘Don’t drink’ was...
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