I often read books or listen to podcasts where highly successful people have locked into their inner dialog and have been able to identify a word or phrase that centers them and allows them to find whatever they are searching for. Maybe it is inner peace, motivation, a sense of direction, or simply the ability … Continue reading I Live Here Now: The Search For A Mantra
Coffee & Where To Find It
Coffee is one of my favorite things in the world. While I am not physically addicted to caffeine and can go days or weeks without it I am psychologically addicted to the stuff. Coffee stirs something inside of me that makes me creative, that allows me to express myself, and fuels the work too hard … Continue reading Coffee & Where To Find It
2017 Goals
I am a checklist person, an overachiever, a doer, and setting my goals and intentions for the year is a much better option than making resolutions. Yes I know that it is just an arbitrary period of time randomly assigned during the rotation of a big rock, but having a set time frame helps to … Continue reading 2017 Goals
2016 A Year In Review
This is my favorite essay to write every year. It is an opportunity to put things down on paper and process 365 days worth of information and put a nice bow on it for the year. I use this review to see where I spent my time and money, and the priorities that those expenditures … Continue reading 2016 A Year In Review
Stuff Versus Things
I love having stuff. Not in a sentimental way where I tie memories to the stuff that I own, because I am not a very sentimental person. I kind of wish that I had the memory tie in, where I couldn't get rid of stuff because I was so attached to them, instead it isn't … Continue reading Stuff Versus Things
The Open Door Policy
When feature comics pass through the Vermont Comedy club they need a place to stay, often times that place is my futon. When comics come up from Boston to perform at my Meadery show they also stay on my futon. When long lost distant cousins are interviewing for medical residencies they can save money by … Continue reading The Open Door Policy
Brave New World
During the fall of 2009 I was living like a nomad and working my way through a series of 5 week internships. I was accustomed to scrounging whatever sleeping arrangements that find for a few weeks before packing everything I owned into a few duffel bags in the back of my van and moving along. … Continue reading Brave New World
Memento Mori
Late Fall makes me think of death. Maybe it is the empty trees. Maybe it is the gloomy early darkness and the eventuality of winter bearing down on. Maybe it is the history and traditions of New England that our culture has adopted and transformed into the full on Halloween experience. Or maybe it is … Continue reading Memento Mori
Meh-Political
As we near November the whole country is getting spun up about the election. As someone who doesn't believe in the political process I don't have a dog in the fight of either the presidential or local elections, but I feel myself getting drawn into the anxiety and regularly feel like I may snap during … Continue reading Meh-Political
The Sophomore Slump: My Second Year in Comedy
In September 2014 I started taking a standup comedy class, now two years later comedy has become an integral and basically daily part of my life. The journey hasn't been all sunshine and candy corn, it has pushed me to explore a lot of subjects and thought paths that I wouldn't have normally pursued. I … Continue reading The Sophomore Slump: My Second Year in Comedy