Don’t change so the right people will like you, be yourself so the right people will love you. (thanks, Deb T.) Until the lions have their historians, tales of hunting will always glorify the hunter. —African proverb All war is a symptom of man’s failure as a thinking animal. —John Steinbeck (thanks, Matt Wallace) You in trouble if you ain’t … Read More

Here we go again, sports fans. I saw the brilliant Neil Gaiman do this once and thought, What a fun thing to keep track of. It’s a cool way of knowing what we are putting into our minds and hearts, and we can stalk each other’s list to see what lights us up and what sucks. Last year, I just … Read More

“We are all on a big boat together, and we are all a long, long way from land. I think we gotta help each other. And I think when we won’t help someone else, we are hurting ourselves.” This quote is from my friend and neighbor Craig Morris (pictured here with his rock star wife and the band). Craig takes … Read More

You know that feeling when you can hear an entire song playing in your head—every single note and lyric—but you can’t remember what you needed from the grocery store? Songs are time travel—a moment locked in forever you can visit at will.  Some are so good, you can’t just put ’em on in the background ’cause they demand the full … Read More