Does freedom comes from living simply like a monk or opulently like a Trump? It’s the eternal question we all ask ourselves. A TV sitcom I was watching some time ago had a scene with a bunch of stereotypical millennials throwing an unemployment party (yup, you read that right) for[…] Read On
Sitting in a window seat soon after takeoff, I watched as we passed over the Coney Island shorefront where I grew up. And while that image will always be emblazoned in my mind, I knew in my heart that I could never go home again. Not really. It wasn’t the[…] Read On
After a particularly contentious executive staff meeting where the CEO sort of laid into me, my counterpart in sales decided it would be a good idea for us to grab some lunch. That was cool of him. I needed to get some stuff off my chest. “I know you’ve only[…] Read On
If awareness somehow continues to exist in some form after death, what do you think you’d miss most about this life? Me? I would miss just being here, experiencing nature. I grew up on the concrete streets of a sprawling city. Now I live in the mountains. I could never[…] Read On
Have you noticed Google’s latest feature: answering search queries with a single result shown above all others? While some questions do have definitive answers, most don’t. Life isn’t usually that black and white. That hasn’t stopped the search giant from acting as the definitive authority on, well, pretty much everything.[…] Read On
The last step in olive harvest process is making sure you get every single olive off the trees. If you don’t, the ubiquitous olive fruit fly will deposit larvae in all the remaining fruit, ensuring a new generation of destructive pests for the following season. Even when I think I’ve[…] Read On
These are “red flag warning” days in California, where the combination of low humidity, high winds and no rainfall since spring make for high fire danger. It’s something we deal with annually. Last year, the only reason a fire close to our home didn’t spread was that the night was[…] Read On