Solitary Cook,

You made me cry. You convey such honest heartache, great loss and a momentous strength. I am awed. And I am so so sorry for your loss.

Once I would think about my own years and know that I had so many more left than I had lived. Once. Not now. That’s a very hard then freeing place to…

Stuck in 2012, but…

…the new year is a necessary bandwagon, so whaddup January 1st, nice to see you again.

I have some new years resolutions to throw out. Some are lofty goals, some are breaking old habits, and some are just reminders to continue the good things of 2015. If anyone has…

“Would You Take a Magic Pill to Cure Your Stutter?”

Report Card Day 1989 — Columbus Avenue School, Freeport, New York

I dreaded report card day every year. Was it because my first memory of one was a bad one? Perhaps. Either way it was a day I will never forget…

Why do we think that finding your strengths/passion/superpower should be difficult?

We have been conditioned that anything that is worthwhile pursuing in life, should require a lot of hard work. It can be becoming a surgeon, or training to run a marathon, or dieting.

A Common Story From A Common Runner

2009, November 13th. I was 29 years old

I had had it with the Vicodin and the Soma.

Every morning I would make my cocktail of 4 vic’s and 4 soma’s and chase it with a double espresso and for 15 minutes I was bullet…