As much as I'd like to warm you up—offer you a drink, maybe a canapé (probably just some microwave popcorn), I'm just going to dive right in. Life's too short to mess around with a hefty preamble when I have a question that will reach deep into your soul and either enrich it or eviscerate...

Welcome to today's Mortality Lesson... Jurassic Park Edition.   Non-avian dinosaurs went kaput about 66 million years ago. Sorry— that's 3,443,785,714.3 Mondays ago. Dino extinction isn't news to anyone here, unless you are a child, in which case you shouldn't be reading this blog because the f-word comes up from time to time. (For example: all...

I grew up with a bipolar mom. (I’m pretty sure I’m supposed to word that differently now, something like, “a mom who experienced bipolar symptoms,” but her bipolarness was fully baked into her identity—the way I knew her and feared her and loved her—so I shall continue to conflate my mom with her illness and...

Here is where I will confess three things that will make me lose 63% of my reader base (and friends—most of them, too): I don’t like musicals I don’t like dogs I don’t like nature So you will never catch me walking a puppy in the park while humming Popular (from the Wicked soundtrack—a reference...

When I tell you we just hit the 100-day mark of 2026 (April 10th), what thought comes to mind? A) Where is the manager? Who can I talk to about a refund for Q1? B) I guess I earned an "I stayed alive” ribbon. C) I’ve been intoxicated with aliveness for 100 days, baby! D)...

Some people walk into a room and inexplicably lift the energy. These are the “light up the room” types, the people with magnetic presence, or as those born in the 21st century say, the people with rizz. (👆 Champagne may or may not grease the skids of charisma. Being Leonardo DiCaprio also helps.) And then...

Here’s how this “happiness requires trouble” conversation is going to go between us today: We’re going to vent—but only for a minute because complaining is only cathartic for the first bit and then it just gets pissy. We don’t want a piss fest! If you want a piss fest I guess you could just go...

When I’m not writing, I’m speaking to groups of all sizes. It came to my attention recently that the entire world doesn’t know this, which is a real problem since it’s my mission in life to wake people up to live before they die. Here is a cleaned up image of said mission: The best...

I like to toss around research-based tips and tricks for living like we mean it... before our pending endings. Usually these tips involve things to do, but today I am going to focus on what to never, ever do. I have a bone to pick and if you’re the type of person who assumes the...

I mortify myself for so very many reasons, and the reason I’d like to splay open for you here today has to do with envy. More specifically, how I every now and then entirely envy my friends. My delightfully made-up word for this is that I am friendvious. That’s where the delight stops, though. Because...

What Will Your Life Be Like on Monday, March 5, 2035? Obnoxiously stating the obvious: that’s 9 years from now (or if you speak my language, 468 Mondays from now). Will you be dead? Will you be alive? Will you be acting like you're alive if you are still alive 😳? I usually fast-forward to...

This is not going to be a conversation about making grand, sweeping gestures to overhaul your life. If you need and want to make one of those, give it a go! Press the detonation button! Do the big thing! But for the rest of us, we’re tired and looking valiantly for the path of least...