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You ever wake up one morning and just feel like you have nothing to do? You may feel completely drained. Maybe there’s a lot you could be doing but it’s boring stuff you don’t need to be doing. Or maybe there’s stuff that you should be doing but you don’t feel like it. This can…

I remember the first time I saw Notre Dame. I was only 13 visiting Paris for the first time with my dad. I remember looking at this famous building and thinking how small it looked. It’s no taller than your standard East Side tenement. And you forget that because of how large it looms in…

The return of Game of Thrones after a two-year absence got off to a slow start, with a procession by Jon Snow and Daenerys Targaryen back to Winterfell reminiscent of when we met Robert Baratheon back in Season 1. By the end, we were on the edge of our seats as Brandon Stark stares down…

I’m finishing taxes this weekend. Allow me to go on one of my fun rants. I get the need for taxes. I do. But what in the hell is the use of capital gains tax? This is my money. I already got taxed on it when I earned it. Now, I’m investing it. That’s something…

I’ve never had a morning routine. I always considered them boring and, well, routine. I also always was too lazy to have one. That sounds harsh but it’s true. Getting up at the same time every morning means discipline and self control. Making breakfast, going to the gym, reading the news—these are things that lame…

I was thinking about George Washington today and all of a sudden I realized that the image I had in my head of our first president was not of this guy… …but of this guy: I was astounded. Obviously, Hamilton‘s Christopher Jackson is an unmatched performer and his portrayal of Washington is a masterpiece. But…

100 Days. 100 Blog Posts. I’ll admit, I haven’t been very good about keeping up. I spend some nights where I write 4, 5 posts in a row just to keep on pace. But, as I discovered at 90, the writing is getting easier. The hard part is carving out 15-30 minutes every day to…

I’ve never done it before. Intentionally, that is. One time, last year, a friend and I got up and started to walk out without paying. It was an honest mistake; we were having a great time and simply forgot we hadn’t paid. And the waiter chased us down and we paid, no problem. Went to…

Boy, I got my ass handed to me. It was supposed to be a casual game, and it was. It has been a couple years since I’ve seriously played poker, and I’d have to admit, part of me just wanted some action. Instead, I walked into a den of snakes. Some advice for you that…

There are two types of lies: lies of commission and lies of omission. It stands to reason that there are two types of honesty: expressed honesty and repressed honesty. My writing has almost always fallen in the former camp. I’m not proud of it. Here we are, my 97th blog post since January 1, and…