One thing I rarely lacked in college was confidence. My best friend was an odd kind and I spent a lot of time with him. One of his more frequent obsessions was talking about how young some people were when they achieved a big thing: a common example being Bret...

Against all expectations, we ended up at a diner . Cheryl had drove while John sat in the back of their red Jeep with me smoking hand rolled cigarettes. I was feeling a smooth type of wired from the matcha as Cheryl took us out of the lush greenery of...

When people say they don't have anything to write, they should instead say they don't want to write. Because unless you've gone brain dead or are in deep meditation your mind is flowing with thoughts and ideas. To say that there's nothing to write given that wellspring is disrespectful on...

After arriving I double checked the time and location. No error. I was at the right place at the right time. But where was John? The front door was left open, which might've been his way of passively greeting me in, but having never been inside I chose to wait...

I find blankets to be fascinating for the fact that they generate no heat. Any warmth you feel was generated solely from your body. It's beautiful that something that emits no heat is associated with warmth and protection. It took me several decades to figure out that the coziness of...

I headed to John Zabka 's on an empty stomach. One thing nobody left out when describing to me their visit to John's was how skilled at cooking he was. Skilled is the key word here because usually when somebody says another person is a good cook, it means they...

If you're not writing what you want... what you need to write then you're going to quit.

This is because writing isn't great. They do a good job of selling you the status of a writer but the isolated task of writing is nothing to write home about.

Like most...

I really liked the ideas spitballed by  Nedzen . It got me thinking about our fixation with tying money and time .

Energy and motivation doesn't strike people across the population at the same time. We have our own rhythms and flows. We can't...

The error is nested so deep within the stack trace he feels cortisol flood out from his capillaries. After a few seconds of leg shaking he shuts down the laptop, shoves it into his messenger bag, and escapes.

Outside he is cast Instagram Blue. Bad day for perfect weather he thinks...

The kind of town I like's a busy one. That's why I'm glad to have left New York, where you would think everyone was busy but they really aren't. As in they can take their long lunches and coffees. Their schedules are  booked for sure, but they can just move...