I don’t know why. Should I? — I’m knocking out one of my 50-plus-mile bike rides last Sunday on a glorious day alongside the east bank trail of Anacostia River in Washington D.C. The sun is leaping out of a brilliant sky to cast a golden hue on the water and everything it touches — great blue…

Horrendous Hollywood Hype Will Only Rob You of Two Hours of Your Life I’m trying to do you a favor here, dear reader, even though this is my last week of wasting so much time writing on Medium. I’ll write when I can provide a true public service, and this…

It’s time for all of us to stop giving away our work to Medium so that it alone can make real money off our labor. — A lot of us on Medium ask ourselves the same question on a daily basis: Is writing on Medium mostly a complete waste of time? The conclusion I’ve reached is a resounding “Yes.” …

It’s time for us all to start bombarding Medium customer support with our displeasure at everything the company is doing to antagonize us. I’m finding more each day that writing for Medium is almost always a complete waste of time. …

I wake up this morning and drive to a new client’s house to start a cleanout project for Orion’s Attic — my estate liquidation company here in the Maryland/Washington, D.C. area. The client isn’t there. My crew isn’t there. I call my client and leave a message, asking if she’s…

My sympathetic old soul can’t bear to see any animal die — It happens to me all the time in my line of work. My day job, until I successfully make my way back to writing full-time, is running an estate liquidation company in the greater Maryland/Washington D.C./Virginia …

For the first time in my life, I dread a return to the place I used to love more than any other. Why? — I’ve had some intestinally uncomfortable moments the past few weeks — feeling like a stranger in a strange land. They’ve happened on what used to be one of my favorite places on Earth — the tennis court. Tennis was my first love, really. I signed up for a weekly tennis…

One arachnid — so many questions — [Ed. Note: My wife (Won-ok Kim) and I are outdoors almost every day exploring our beloved Sligo Creek here in Wheaton (Silver Spring), Maryland, and many other places throughout Maryland, Washington D.C., and Virginia. Just for kicks, I thought I’d start sharing some photos and info nuggets. …

The privileged tennis star has always thought he was better than us, but his own unforced errors net him a humiliating — and richly deserved — loss [Ed. Note: My “Challenge Flags” column puts the world of sports under review to see what’s right and what’s wrong. Today’s challenge? …