Did you know that today, July 11th is World Population Day. This is a real day, not a holiday exactly, but a reminder to deep-think the global population bubble. This is a recurring topic over at Why No Kids, and I've already spilled enough digital ink there, so I'll skip the soapbox. At least for now. But it's worth noting that our species is on track to hit 8 billion people by 2025. That's a ...
Bold Creative Risk
Unfettered by prudence, caution, inhibition. Undaunted by convention or expectation. I have a hunch that many adults — midlife, midcareer, mid marriage, mid mortgage, midway to retirement — grow conscious, subtly at first and then slightly less subtly, creative impulses still linger from way back, dormant instincts to forge something out of nothing. No, that's not exactly right. More alchemy. ...
Halfway
Welcome to July, to [almost] Independence Day, to halfway-to-2017, to the second half of 2016. Welcome to a new day and a new month... ripe with potential. Ready... to start fresh once again. Rabbit, rabbit! * It's time to step out of the shadow of yesterday, yester-season, yesteryear. They're all finished and with them, the doubts and setbacks and flops. Compost them. Blunders and absurdities no ...
Limitless
"To define yourself is to limit yourself. Without labels you remain the infinite being." ~ Deepak Chopra ...
Midlife Mixology: Muddles, Mashups & Monologues
A jigger of Eric Bogosian and a dash of Spalding Gray. Skip the simple syrup, the bitters, the speared fruit. Garnish with "Alice's Restaurant Massacree". Call it a Midlife Massacre. Or anything you want. You with me? Sit down. Stand up. Up-down, up-down. Identity fluid. Flip-flop. Laugh. Cry. Confession. Aspiration. Inspiration. Affirmation. Meet the nation. MAMIL. This round's on ...
Bathroom Reading Month
Welcome to the most bibliophilic month of the year. June is National Bathroom Reading Month. I $#%& you not. And I would like to suggest that this thirty day celebration of commodious living is the perfect opportunity to spend some time on the throne with 40x41: Midlife Crisis Postponed. It's the perfect potty companion! Perhaps even more more perfect than Uncle John's Bathroom ...