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Life, An Unauthorized User’s Guide

An entirely unauthorized and mostly unhelpful guide to life from an unreliable witness.

Turn On The Lights, Turn Up The Music

A daughter dances. Hope (and dead lightbulbs) spring back to life.

14 Clues That You’re Reaching Some Kind of Age – and What to Do About It

Milestones for those undistinguished ages in the middle of your journey but which seem to change you nonetheless.

6 Insults to Lose an Argument With

A stock photo of an angry man shouting into the void of a telephone.

These six words will kill your online argument before it’s begun.

Writing For Money In The Age Of Skynet

So I was reading on a French Polynesian beach when she caught my eye. A French woman in her fifties, kneeling in the aquamarine waters just off shore, a cigarette in her right hand, a dog under her left arm, a vague air of cynical resignation about her as if she were contemplating Life’s Final Tryst, the inevitable embrace of cold, merciless, faithful death.

Stripping Like A Pro

Writing, for me, is a bit like a strip tease. Not literally stripping for the readers, obviously. You would never get any work done, and you might get slapped with a restraining order, or just slapped, depending on what genre of writing, physique-wise, describes your body of work. I don’t even mean baring your heartContinue reading “Stripping Like A Pro”