I was reading something recently about vulnerability, and how it can lead to so much good in life if you just allow yourself to let everything in. “Everything?” I don’t know about you, but vulnerability scares the hell out of me. And I’m going to …

I was chatting this afternoon with a co-worker today about the architecture of a doughnut. Earlier in the day, I noticed there was a pesky box of leftover, doughy remnants in our agency kitchen area, and it was staring me in the face each time I n…

Raising the bar. The wow factor. There are a lot of ways to say that something has demonstrated or possesses an element that elevates it head and shoulders over something else. And it’s always refreshing to hear a new way of saying something. I ca…

I’m not a fan of taking the trash out at 9:15 at night and stepping into 80-degree weather. Last week we were lucky enough to get some much needed rain. A few days later, it still felt like fall was in the air. Today, not so much. This time of the…

I have two plants in my office. They’re those wonderfully air cleaning and nearly indestructible plants called pothos. They’re a beautiful emerald color with splashes of yellow, but one has a far more golden look to its leaves. Since they are both…

“Impressive” is a funny word. It’s a word that can sometimes imply a sense of grandeur, a sense of wealth or a sense of awe. It can bring to mind monuments of great size, natural wonders that dot the landscape and man-made structures that defy gra…

Some nights, after the day has died down and the vast expanse of a clear night sky inspires wonder, I find that I have so many questions about my life. I want to know about the who, what, where, when, the why and the how. I wonder about my past an…

Tonight as I was driving home from Disneyland, I came to an overpass that had a left-turn lane near the top; one car was already sitting in it, waiting at the red arrow. To the right of that lane were three or four lanes of traffic, all with a gre…

I ride the protein train for most of the day. In the morning, I’m a fan of egg whites, sometimes lentils (don’t judge), cottage cheese, yogurt and/or milk. Lunch is chicken along with some sort of wedge a la Laughing Cow, and usually a veggie or t…

Confession: I made a gin and tonic when I got home, and my dinner was a spoonful of frosting. OK, two spoonfuls. And 1/3 of a cup of leftover Spanish Rice-a-Roni. It’ll never go down as one of my finer meals, and I can’t decide if it would’ve been…