Today’s the day. I’ve had this picture in my head of what a normal, productive day should look like. The kind of day that, if I followed the same routine every time, would lead me to accomplishing all my goals. I’d get some exercise in, I’d work on my book,...
“Do you have a place in your mind you go to when you need to de-stress and relax?” Evi asked. I thought for a moment. “You mean some imaginary place, like a beach or meadow?” “It doesn’t have to be imaginary,” she replied. “It could be a place you’ve actually...
Last Tuesday, Evi woke up feeling so miserable she asked me to take Norah to her scheduled appointment with the pediatrician. “Park in the back,” my wife said. “I told them Norah hasn’t felt well, so they’re going to come out and give her a Covid test before letting her...
So say they say the best time to build a business is in a recession. I don’t know who ‘they’ is, or whether they’re masochistic or not, but I guess I’m going to test their theory. I don’t really have much of a choice. Confession time: The mortgage business has...
Admit it, you thought I was going to skip yesterday, didn’t you? I almost did. I started writing early yesterday morning, got interrupted, then the day just kind of got away from me. It wasn’t until late last night that I was able to finish bitching about the book again....
As I’ve said one jillion times, I’m publishing a book sometime in 2022. It’s mostly a collection of the best humor essays I’ve written over the last seventeen years. My wife made it sound easy. “Just copy and paste them into Amazon, hit ‘Publish’, and you’re done! What are you...
I’m going to guess that over the next few weeks you’ll see me posting a little more about my day job, where I’m a very talented mortgage banker. The reasons are twofold: One is self-serving; my business has slowed down quite a bit due to the market, and I know...
Okay, you know how I’d been bitching about how I went a month-and-a-half always having some stupid ailment? Well, the Saturday before last it was all over. I woke up, had a cup of coffee, and realized, holy shit, I feel great! Later that afternoon, while wading in the $32...
Going to the Naples office today. It’s a solid 45-60 minute trip one way, so it’s not something I do often, but it is my official office. It’s on my business cards, email signature and everything. I don’t need to go, but I need to go. Due to the near-hour...
Rooting around in the pantry looking for a snack yesterday, I could hear Norah crying about something. If you’ve ever had a two-year-old, you know that’s not unusual. It’s basically background noise you don’t hear anymore, like the air conditioner, the refrigerator, or a carjacking in the Bronx. But this...
I finished off the Obi-Wan series on Disney this morning, and thank God I did, because I needed The Force this afternoon. Oh, everything started out well enough. We bought some water toys last night for the girls to play with in their inflatable pool, so they wanted to jump...
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