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Bud asked if I liked spanking. Mike’s first email was an erotic story. The artist guy took me out to brunch then turned out to be penniless.

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Use it or lose it: your brain, that is
Monday, 22 Feb, 2010 – 15:06 | 8 Comments
Use it or lose it: your brain, that is

Really, I was afraid of making the wrong decision. At the age of 43, I didn’t want to start down a road, using up precious time and money, and then realizing it was a road I didn’t want to be on after all.

Poetry from Midlife: Deep Bloom
Monday, 8 Feb, 2010 – 14:44 | 8 Comments
Poetry from Midlife: Deep Bloom

I want to live
right through to the end in full frontal
engagement, awake to everything.

How To Save Your Own Life
Sunday, 3 Jan, 2010 – 21:44 | 2 Comments
How To Save Your Own Life

I can see How To Save Your Own Life on the bedside table of someone who likes to fall asleep at night with something spiritually-provocative on their mind

How To Beat The Deadline Trap
Monday, 14 Dec, 2009 – 14:29 | 5 Comments
How To Beat The Deadline Trap

As I lolled in the sand in a state of total relaxation and bliss, I had a revelation…

What Makes a Home?
Sunday, 6 Dec, 2009 – 22:52 | 4 Comments
What Makes a Home?

We never do leave home. Every house we’ve ever lived in has helped form us into who we are, has followed along with us every step of the way.

Of Marriage, Life, Art and Loss
Sunday, 29 Nov, 2009 – 23:28 | 6 Comments
Of Marriage, Life, Art and Loss

Regardless of the causes, I am dealing with an enormous loss, and the agony of watching him erase himself. It is the antithesis of creating. It is chaos as well as inertia.

Dialectic: Poetry, Philosophy, Collage
Monday, 16 Nov, 2009 – 13:14 | One Comment
Dialectic: Poetry, Philosophy, Collage

The walls of human understanding have various purposes, textures, designs. But their intent is often to keep something…safe from challenge and on-going discovery of the truth of inherent polarity.

How To Survive Change You Didn’t Ask For
Thursday, 27 Aug, 2009 – 13:30 | 3 Comments
How To Survive Change You Didn’t Ask For

The only thing any of us can know for certain is that life will continue to change at a rapid pace because the world has gotten more complex and interdependent.

On The Road Again: The MidLife Version
Monday, 10 Aug, 2009 – 0:08 | 6 Comments
On The Road Again: The MidLife Version

It was the second night, when I found myself on the border of Colorado and Kansas, that I wished for the comfort of my own bed, the routine of my life, and not the countless miles of pavement that stretched before me.

Midlife Crisis and Reinvention
Thursday, 6 Aug, 2009 – 13:59 | One Comment

“Your right to throw a punch stops at my face.” I remember hearing this expression years ago as a basic definition of freedom in the United States. I thought of it more recently when I read …

The New Roommates
Tuesday, 4 Aug, 2009 – 16:10 | 19 Comments
The New Roommates

In a sense, they are like spouse stand-ins, and they’re thinking of getting T-shirts made saying: “I’m Becoming The Man I Always Wanted To Marry.”

To Dye or Not: An Update
Tuesday, 7 Jul, 2009 – 11:06 | 13 Comments
To Dye or Not:  An Update

This chic new look has me fantasizing about Japanese designer clothes and moving to Manhattan. And when I’m not thinking about how much I hate my neck, I’m groovin’ on the cropped hair…