Who wants to feel this good? — Make no mistake, I didn’t plan this. I was not looking to embark on some kind of liver detox, life reset, or telomere lengthening exercise. The only thing that happened is that I got whacked so hard by COVID that the mere sight of the bottle of prosecco chilling in…

Come on, you were a mess back then too — There are several decades of my life that I would love to send sailing off a cliff into a fire pit of serpents, but perhaps none so galling as The Teenage Years. Do you remember how hellish this was? It was the only time in life when it was considered…

Yeah, yeah, I know. Not ALL men. — In 2002, I was 26, living in a new city, and losing my mind trying to find a job. It was a very quick trip down the ego Slip n’ Slide from looking for teaching jobs one day, down to hoping to fold t-shirts for a few hours a week…

Just, wow. — Look. I know that I have many advanced degrees–one of which, if I remember correctly, was bestowed upon me by an Ivy League institution. And I probably should be using my research and analysis skills to do something important like dissect cryptocurrency which Joshua Edward does exceedingly well over on…

It’s 11 p.m. Do you know where your dopamine is? — Who among us wants to face the world these days, much less without a slight buzz on? It’s not just the fact that the world is imploding. Over a year of quarantine has also left us out of practice with being among humans and a lot of us left our…

In which, she gets neurotic about neurons. — Let’s play the most effed-up game of roulette ever, shall we? Imagine that instead of numbers, there are the various diseases and maladies that befall aging people on the wheel. We’ve got cancer of all flavors, various issues resulting in physical compromise, organ diseases requiring transplants or removal, metabolic disorders…

When something so bad makes them feel so good. — If you are as disgusted with 99% of the Republican Party in the US as I am, the January 6th hearings are our Super Bowl. I’ve been riveted to every move in the playbook, from the Cheney Chop to the Raskin Rattler, and have been cheering every point that lights…

Plus, a few other overlooked harbingers of doom. — If there’s one thing I am sure of in the middle of this summer of American implosion, it’s that this didn’t come out of nowhere. While many of us busied ourselves elbowing each other out of spots at elite universities, strapping into acceptable debt-to-income ratios, and rewarding ourselves with thirty-dollar…

But, if you make it through this post, you might still want to try. — It’s the weirdest thing. Does anyone have any idea why so many people from the US are asking me about moving here to Italy? Are you guys ok over there or what? I am guessing something must be up because I’ve answered so many questions about shipping containers, I feel…