People are lucky. If you make it as one of us (meaning humans), you're doing alright. Just to be alive and breathing at this moment, you’ve overcome tremendous challenges genetically, geographically, and historically. From the very (and I mean very) beginning, you won your first...
A certain kind of slow burn exists in the world. It’s a rare experience that can transport you to another place and time. Sister Rosetta Tharpe’s impeccably grooved take on “This Train is Bound for Glory” is one of those slow burns. Sparked by an...
What if I offered you a tale of intrigue involving a displaced real estate developer, a wedding-night champagne mishap, and a $350 million lawsuit? The curious will find this tantalizing. Stronger imaginations might even say illicit. And the truly debauched among us are already salivating...
On my writing desk there is a modest but well-loved collection of Star Wars Lego sets. The crown jewel (in my opinion) of this fleet is the Millenium Falcon. My wife bought it for me when I turned 35, fulfilling a lifetime desire to snag...
You know that magic moment when you think you’re just going to read about a guy picking up trash, but you also get a lesson in street planning (with some solid acronyms as a bonus)? If you’ve never had the experience, get ready, because here...
I found this orange mesh bag on the road the other day during an otherwise blah run.Based on research carried out by my top-notch assistant, Google Lens, I have ascertained that it could be any of the following:A potato sack.The excitement that comes with writing...
I recently stumbled across a video that I hadn’t seen in a while. If you grew up in an evangelical christian home in the late nineties/early aughts, there’s a great chance that either you or your mom loved this song. Even though I identified as a...
I witnessed something earlier this summer that I don’t know how to categorize. My writing desk sits under a window that looks out on a black Walnut tree with a backdrop of fields. It’s a great view that is beautiful enough to be satisfying but...
My cat, Magellan, is a fur-covered, super-cool point of sacred egress. He’s beautiful - gray body with white on his belly, paws, and the tip of his tail. He looks kind of like a classier, long-haired version of Tom (of Tom and Jerry), and he’s...
A brief history of milk.Some historians stray from their lane and theorize that people began drinking milk in prehistoric times. I don’t know about all that, but I do know that milk consumption was happening on some level a long time ago in a place...