I only hope my phone doesn’t get jealous —

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 — while we were at…

Battling his nemesis with naps, coffee, and donuts… —

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 —

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…