I’m back in New York City for a few days. Yesterday I caught up with an old friend who’s in a familiar trough. Every four years or so he hits a tough spell that feels like rock bottom. This time, to get out of it, he told me he needs…

Rebirth is a concept that crosses eastern and western culture. It’s vital eastern culture in Hinduism and Buddhism and rebirth is a fundamental belief, but also manifests in the west through concepts like the idea of being a born again Christian. I got back from Burning Man a few days…

The truth is I’ve had mixed feelings going into this burn. Burning Man had been what I was most looking forward to this year. But a few weeks ago I got into an emotional entanglement that unfortunately got entangled with Burning Man and made apprehensive about both affairs. …

The Rock Show by Blink-182 was my favorite song for quite some time in my preteen years. Listening to it on Spotify doesn’t quite give me the same thrill I had in my youth, but whenever I hear it on the radio or in a public place the excitement comes…

As a car lover I have an interesting relationship with traffic lights. At times they can be frustrating, like when the light is red and you’re eager to get going. But there’s also no doubt that roads would function far less smoothly without them. Traffic lights with their green, yellow…

I always thought that familial love and romantic love were similar but fundamentally different types of love. It turns out that love has one template, and that template is formed for humans at the very beginning of life by the relationship between an infant and its caregivers. …

This past week my friend told me about what she called the rule of thirds. This particular rule of thirds says that when you’re doing what should be doing, that is to say, that you’re passionate and in the flow, that one third of the time it’ll be amazing, one…

I have bruised knuckles on both hands right now. I wasn’t in a fight. I actually hurt my hands riding a jet ski maybe a little too aggressively. I didn’t even notice I had hurt myself in the moment. I guess I wasn’t heeding my own advice of relaxing the…