Thirty years ago I was hurling rocks with the zeal of a young Ken Griffey Jr. over the edge of a ravine. I’d pick up a rock, a flat one if I could find it, curl my index finger over the top of it, and then fling it as hard as I could into the […]
I have a vice. Well, I have several but we’re going to focus on one today. I love soda. And right now in Utah there’s a fancy soda craze sweeping the region. These little soda shops are cropping up like black mold in a Louisiana swamp and the idea is that you take perfectly good […]
It took me 38 years to recognize all the little things that I realize. Put another way, it wasn’t until very recently that I realized how differently I see the world than almost everyone else. Like the time I could see the slow-motion internal dilemma of a fellow middle-aged man reaching for a copy of […]
We all know what a Roast is, right? They started back in the mid-century 1900s with Dean Martin, I believe, and the idea is that someone brings together a group of people they really like and trust and the collective then proceeds to take personal shots until the guest of honor is either crying because […]
We were already married when I found out you had been paying 10 cents for every single text that we sent back and forth the entire time we were dating. I started to do the mental math and my brain overheated because I knew how many late nights we spent furiously finger-typing until 2 am. […]
Brady would be mortified if he knew I were writing this so if you see him in the street, please keep this particular post on the down-low. He deserves all the attention that we could possibly ever give him, but the last thing he wants is the praise and limelight. I’m hoping he’ll appreciate this […]
With the internet we would finally get rid of the monopolistic stronghold from our Cable and Satellite providers! We were going to be Julie Andrews in a Swiss meadow of endless DRM-free on-demand content, and our only cost would be the pipe that would bring it directly into our living room set top box. It […]
I don’t want to oversell it but it’s the first thing I’ve picked up from a book that I’m still thinking about almost hourly even 3 months after completing the book. The secret I learned is being reflected in my everyday outcomes to the point where my marriage is improved, my employer is complimenting me […]