Trusting each other is astonishingly win-win and has won-won us everything we have ever had — Prior to the pandemic, one thing I certainly wouldn’t have thought to prescribe for our already socially malnourished culture was a massive infusion of “social distancing.” Unless, of course, I was trying to kill it. But maybe, witnessing a large-scale social breakdown during the pandemic…

Battling his nemesis with naps, coffee, and donuts, among other things — If you missed part one of Feeling Fighter’s avoidant antics, you can see it here. I’ve spent most of my life desperately trying to fend off and avoid difficult feelings. These days, I’m making a deliberate effort to spend time with these uncomfortable sensations, observing how they move in my…

But was he ever really gone? —

What I’d do with a billion-dollar lottery win — I must admit that a billion-dollar lottery got my attention. We’re not talking about vacation money with first-class passage and conversations about how a million isn’t what it used to be. We’re talking filthy, stinking, unimaginably rich. It refreshes the question I’ve always loved asking myself of what I would…

You can’t deal with what you don’t feel — This comic started with a drawing from this comic essay on the way feelings can directly transport me through time. I’ve already got a second one in this series and would have no trouble drawing more. They are just scenes from my life. I am actively moving toward my feelings…

It’s paying attention to what I’m actually doing — I’ve started noticing the astonishing extent to which I’m busy worrying about how well I am doing instead of focusing on the task at hand. Not to brag, but I can distract myself with angst-ridden self-evaluation while doing almost anything, including but not limited to, writing cartoons, playing guitar, doing…

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Right in the nick of time — After years of studying the matter, both on and off the couch, I have a pretty clear thesis on why I struggle emotionally. Developmental injuries left me feeling periodically worthless and unlovable, which I have been ineffectually trying to remedy by frantically scrambling to somehow make myself more lovable and…

Oneness