Welcome to the Dead Dad Club

During my Dad’s wake last year, my long-time friend took me away from the crowd. She’d lost her Dad a decade prior, in her twenties, a time when friends aren’t the best equipped to help with the serious stuff. I still wonder if we helped her at all. She gave me a hug and said…

4 Ways I Improved My Life as the World’s Most Average Person

It’s The Life I’ve Been Dealt

20 years ago, my father went to prison.

What Is A Lover?

1. A partner-in-crime (to call in sick and be a bum with on a Monday).
2. A human pillow, always warm.
3. Extra fingers to scratch your back.
4. Silly fights picked for the makeup sex.
5. “I’m high on you.”

The Things I No Longer Do

And why I stopped.

1. Talk to my God like He’s remote, unloving or ominous. He is not the god of dimly-lit shrines, forbidding intermediaries or blood oaths taken at midnight. He is closer than my skin, more in love with me than I can be with myself…

A change of pace

Here’s what happened

It’s Not Your Fault

The Role of Environment in Burnout

I’m sorry I’m old

My first professional, full-time job in graphic design started sometime in August of 1996; as a newly graduated, newly married…

3 Tricks For Getting Unstuck

Do you ever feel the pressure to come up with new and great ideas but find that you’re spinning your wheels…

If you could only see

If you could only see through my eyes