I woke up this morning and the first thing I wanted to do was scratch my back. Vigorously. Last weekend’s sunburn had been manifesting itself in serious peeling since Wednesday, and today was the worst. From my shoulders downward, things looked ab…

I covered a lot of territory last night while I was flying home from San Francisco — not only literally, but thought-wise, as well. It’s amazing how much the mind can think about when it’s not at rest. The skies looked turbulent and threatening a…

I flew up to San Francisco this morning for a business day trip. Earlier this afternoon as the group I was with walked down the street and hailed a cab, we all piled into it and I noticed a man sitting on the sidewalk as we drove away. He had a si…

There’s nothing quite like getting a Living Will, Last Will and Testament and Power of Attorney in order to make your emotions take a sudden nosedive. Being the genius that I am, I decided to do this around 10am this morning, and it had a marked e…

An onion’s scent is to this dieter’s abode as poorly applied polish is to a fingernail. Alright — possibly a stretch…but go with me on this one. Whenever I’m back on the dieting wagon, I tend to do a lot of vegetable-roasting in the oven. Aspar…

For months on end, my remote control would turn on my TV, but not turn it off. While I was fine with getting up and turing off my TV by hand, after a while I decided it was irritating and that the remote should work. If it can turn it on, it shoul…

I spent some time outdoors today weeding the flowerbeds in my backyard. It was a fitting thing to do the day before Earth Day, I figured. Mother Nature was at her best. A giant grasshopper visited midway through my time outside, landing on a small…

Sometimes when I’m really bored and looking to keep the shenanigans to a minimum, I’ll drive over to my local Walmart about a mile away and peruse the aisles. I can easily lose myself for a few hours, and generally wind up coming home with a new c…

Today at work, I found myself doing a bit of research on a guy who started a company that we’re in the process of pitching. The man seems incredibly smart and has amazingly diverse professional experience, and at the end of his particular “About U…

Inspiration is a funny thing. Places where you never expected to find it, it exists. And places where you thought you would see it, you instead find that you’re coming up a bit short. In the past two weeks, I’ve found inspiration in the graffiti o…