I feel like you’re calling for me almost every night. I am not manufacturing these feelings, it just doesn’t add up. Your pull is so strong and when we do meet I really do feel like it’s meant to be. How could something that feels so right be wrong. But then I eat you with a little chocolate syrup and an hour later I am paying the price. I tell myself never again, but we both know I’ll be back in ...

The really strange part about parallel selves is the fact they just spell your name backwards. I mean, sure it’s a parallel universe and all, with an exact but not exact version of me but I just can’t get over this oddity. And are the mean ladies in this parallel universe all called Nerak?? Of course you have Bob, he’s the same in both. Are there redneck hipsters who inadvertently solved the issue...

Sure, automation in machines makes sense. Start it along its predetermined path with a quarter or hitting the start or enter button and it fulfills its duties again and again until it doesn’t. But here we are now, with a small dot of an apparatus attached just behind the ear, completely camouflaged with a skin tone matching technology, providing a direct line to our thoughts. The tricky part - how...

Dear Fred: today was a tough day full of unfortunate turns and sinister outcomes. For example, they were out of strawberry milk at lunch. I also missed out on a game of freeze tag and the swing sets were full. I am not sure why the heavens have cursed me so. Alas, tomorrow is another day and I will endure.

Dear Simon: what a day! I emptied my email box within two hours of sitting at my desk, the...

Inevitable as defined by Webster’s Dictionary, 5th edition - incapable of being avoided or evaded. It is a feeling like no other, isn’t it? The fact that it’s going to happen just puts a different spin on the other emotions in the room - anxiety, nervousness, anticipation, to name a few. Just like the clock will hit noon, so will this thing that has to be done.

I can see her sitting in the fami...

You were the dream, the idea of something new, an adventure for all of us. Coming from a place of comfort and familiarity, it was always going to feel like a leap of faith.

She was the one who knew, and who has a confirmed knack for knowing these kinds of things. It would be better, eventually, for all of us. It was with varying levels of satisfaction but the constant in all of this was this fan...

To be clear, this isn’t a sad story by any stretch - he was a bad decision from the get go. The likelihood of a meaningful relationship with a bouncer at a country western bar in middle america was about as high as riding the mechanical bull in said bar for 8 seconds (shout out to Luke Perry). But how could one be blamed, he was charming, tan, built like a linebacker and had his lines down, no dou...

I could walk to work over 20 miles each way with little to no sidewalks along major highways, or I could drive.

I could plant a garden, trying to grow enough food for me and my family of five, or I could go to the grocery store.

I could write a letter with urgent information provided or needed, or I could make a call or send - email, text, slack, teams, WhatsApp, messenger, Instagram, Snapchat...

It starts at the back of the house with the mere glance of a certain outfit. The instant energy is one and any kind of motion backwards is met with a look of disappointment, the kind that makes you feel especially bad because it is pure. A few steps in the right direction and the levels of excitement build every few feet covered. Is it really going to happen, this special, special time (note: it h...

It’s just another day, like the others but it’s not and I’m not sure I can do it. Days like Christmas, Thanksgiving, birthdays - they are all just days but we anoint them with different meanings because it’s the 25th, the fourth Thursday of November, the day we planted our flag on planet Earth. How special, or not, those days feel come from within us.

How then do I know what to do with this day ...