The Pact

I believe that birds make pacts with our dogs when they build their nests in our yard. The dogs keep...

Yeah, That’s My Kid

My children constantly surprise me. Last month when we were visiting Walt Disney World we splurged and let them play...

weapon of choice

to what end, all this rushing around and dominating the competition? gold? this is man’s destiny? to hoard gold and...

How to Make a Great Ad

When I broke into advertising, I was all about the high concept stuff that left an impact on people. Creating...

Would You Be Upset In Belize?

Life is hard enough without having to deal with bad drivers who don’t use their turn signals. And it’s more...

The Window

The window is constantly shutting. It does not care about your five year plan. Opportunities to live appear in every...

Ants

  What if we are all really just ants? Slaves to the machine. Blinded by conformity of the way things...

Dustin Pedroia is the Reason I Love Baseball

Make no mistake, I’m no fan of the Boston Red Sox. I used to like them back in the day...

They Only Jog in Rich Neighborhoods

Angels constantly swirl around me. Some are beautiful. Some are violent. Some have bad teeth. They protect me from those...

A Letter to America

  Dear All Dogmatic American Party Liners, We Unaffiliated American voters are pissed off at what you’ve done to our...

A Little Advice

I don't like giving advice. In fact, I hate it. It's not that I don't like helping people, there are...

Finding Neverland: A Story of Belize

This year my family took its summer vacation to the Central American nation of Belize.

3 Ways to Save Humans in America

You are what you eat. It’s an idiom kids in the 70s grew up with that made us think about...

Bump

I used to know a guy named Bump. He was a metal worker in my dad’s sheet metal shop. Bump...

Dear Parents, Do Better

In 2001 I became a parent. I chose to become a parent. But like everyone else who is a parent...

What if we just treated others nicely? If we went into every scenario with an open heart, an open mind, and no agenda to dick anyone over. If we all stopped judging. And hitting. Imagine if we employed these simple…

The older I get, the more I see, the less I understand. I was raised a Republican and voted for Reagan in 1984 while serving in the Air Force at the end of the Cold War. I got out of…

New research reveals step-by-step guidelines to increase your Twitter following. The findings, in the study by university professors C.J. Hutto, Eric Gilbert, and Sarita Yardi, prove that you stand to increase your follower totals if you adhere to a few basic…

I have a wife and two daughters and we love the movies. This Sunday we’ll finish dinner early to pop some popcorn, curl up on the couches, and root for our favorite movies and actors. The Oscars are like the…

I wasn’t going to share this because I don’t know what good it does. Does it really matter? Or is it just shock value that we forget the second the video is over? Does sharing make even the slightest difference…

The garbage truck came today. Like it does every Tuesday. A black man in a white truck pulled in front of our house, reached out with a mechanical claw, grabbed our bin, lifted it high into the air, and dumped…