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Who Knows Where the Phones Go? Jun. 06, 2025
I reach for my phone. It's not in my pocket where it belongs. I'd had it out earlier over where I wa... Read More
Amazing Opportunities Just Keep on Coming May. 30, 2025
On X, the name for what's left of Twitter, I got a direct message from someone I'll call Hank Halsti... Read More
Are We Losing Our Humanity Along With Our Empathy? May. 24, 2025
On the night of May 21, someone shot two young Israeli Embassy employees walking out of the Capital ... Read More
Lunch Lady for a Day May. 17, 2025
Sometimes, I pretend to be a lunch lady. I volunteer for shifts helping out at my boys' elementary s... Read More
Pinnacles and Unforgettable Shebangs May. 16, 2025
You'd think I'd know the date of my wedding, but apparently you'd be wrong. As I write these words, ... Read More
JD Vance Might Not Be a Fan of the Pope, But Chicago Sure Is May. 10, 2025
I don't know if you've heard already, but there's a new pope in town. Not only is he American —... Read More
Transcript of a Call to an Internet Service Provider Apr. 19, 2025
The following is a transcript of a phone call you made last month to your internet service provider ... Read More
We All Join the Inner Circle Mar. 28, 2025
Two days ago, I went out to get trash bags because I needed trash bags, a prescription because I nee... Read More
Tending to Our Homes and Our Hearts With TikTok Star Mercury Stardust Mar. 28, 2025
Mercury Stardust visited my local library last weekend to talk about her New York Times No. 1 bestse... Read More
Turns Out Scraping By Is Not the Goal Mar. 23, 2025
For millennials and Gen Z, life is mediocre. Whatever we label the drive for overachievement —... Read More
The Middle Ground to Happiness Mar. 22, 2025
If you trust surveys (and if you are an American, of course, you do not), you may be surprised to le... Read More
Brain Damage: Does Anyone Really Know What Time It Is? Mar. 14, 2025
A while back, I was speaking on an Asian cruise when I realized I could no longer figure out what th... Read More
The Road to Wellness: Paved with Red Lights and Vibration Plates Mar. 08, 2025
I went in for what I call a "shake and bake" recently, cooking like a chicken in a rotisserie under ... Read More
How I Manage to Afford Santa Barbara Mar. 07, 2025
The aptitude test my high school guidance counselor gave me yielded a long, singularly unappealing l... Read More
Lasagna as a Sacrament Feb. 28, 2025
I never met him, though he lived the last days of his life directly across the street from me. I did... Read More
A Light in the Darkness Dec. 27, 2024
The week before Christmas in 2006, on the same day I lost my job, doctors gave my wife six months to... Read More
Reentry (Part 2) Dec. 04, 2024
Around the same time the newly singled realize their bed-hopping adventures actually make them lonel... Read More
Why Are We So Mad at Low-Hanging Fruit? Oct. 20, 2024
There's a saying you've probably heard a thousand times: "Don't go for the low-hanging fruit." You s... Read More
Life Engineering (Continued) Oct. 02, 2024
—There's a fiction circling singleworld that making your life comfortable and secure while you... Read More
Time for a Federal Law Prohibiting Abortion Sep. 04, 2024
In June 2022, The Supreme Court, in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, overturned Roe v. ... Read More
