Mid-May. I am in Washington, DC on the last day of an exhausting east coast road trip. I already know from past experience that once I return home it's going to take at least three days for my brain to reset to normal.A new email, from a good friend in LA, is in my inbox:" ... invite you to be a speaker ..."No way. Last year stretched me beyond my... Read more
Dateline; The distant past.I am 16 or 17. I am channel-surfing all three channels."This is the Hippy Dippy Weatherman with the hippy dippy weather, man."Pause."And today's high was 212. That's when the weather station caught on fire."This was an era when "Get Smart" and F-Troop" were the hippest, smartest comedies on TV. "And the temperature at... Read more
Interesting ...I just found something more revealing than a mirror, more accurate than a crystal ball, more perceptive than a trusted friend, more objective than a professional advisor.It's called starring in your own videos.Until very recently, I would not have even considered doing a video. Until my daughter got married in March, I never even... Read more
“I could feel the sunlight through my clothes, dilating my pores and flushing my pasty, winter-white skin. I could feel the little hairs along my arms and the back of my neck start to ripple with pleasure like wind-stroked wheat and -“Oh my God ... the little hairs.”The passage is from the recently-published “Manic: A... Read more