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Acting As If
I’m trying so hard to pretend I’m happy when I am anything but. In 12 Step they suggest you, act as if all is well because before you know it you’ll be sitting on top of the world, and not to jump off...
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Small Delays
I’ve learned something about myself that was rather illuminating. I love kids, but not when I’m in a hurry. There I was scurrying across the park to a last minute job when who do I collide with but The...
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Retort Verses Restraint
One of my favorite 12 Step slogans is: Restraint of pen and tongue. In other words, shut-up and whatever you do, don’t send that email you know you shouldn’t send. I’ve said it before but people say...
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Go Away Kid You Bother Me
I love kids, but sure didn’t this day with one sitting across from me while trying to eat my lunch. His mother, a woman in her 30s, was on her cell ignoring this little fellow who looked like a short...
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Would You Shut Up Already
Why do people talk so much? I’m amazed at how often someone traps me into an endless, one-sided conversation. My friend Amy says, it’s like all you are is one big ear. If they could they’d lop it off...
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Starfucks Coffee
said the cashier while her eyes rolled back into her head. Every morning I go to Starbucks to buy overpriced coffee…a tall Blonde in a grande cup…I always think of the film The Attack Of The 50 Foot...
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How Bout Those Choppers
There’s a woman who reads at the library who’s eighty-five if she’s day. You’re always alerted to her arrival because the reading room doors suddenly swing open like she’s entering a saloon. Despite a...
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Finally Tuned Friendship
Age is the true educator. My whole life I’ve viewed everything in black and white…all or nothing…this way or that way with wiggle room, leeway, latitude, flexibility having no role in my life....
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Smug And Snooty
I live in the snottiest neighborhood in the world. Parisians on the Left Bank have nicer manners, and we know how rude the French can be. Park, Madison and Fifth Avenue from 60th Street to 95th are...
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Snoogums Oh Ma Huna
There’s a woman who works at a Starbucks I frequent who has a cartload of names for her customers…doesn’t matter how many times you tell her the right one she’s supposed to jot on your cup like a dog...
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Best Story Of The Week
I’m in the 5 items or less check-out line at Whole Foods with a young kid around 20, in front of me, getting coffee and a muffin. I say, “Wouldn’t you like a little bag for your muffin?” It’s...
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Kindness Confuses People
Why is kindness often perceived as a weakness, a question that comes up time and time again. There seems to be a threat attached to it, like some kind of lethal weapon making its opponents twitch with...
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What We Prefer Not To See
A warning…this is not a happy post. I’m in Starbucks where there’s a homeless man, with no legs, in a wheelchair, parked in the center of the room. It’s freezing out, so Haley and Kim, the two early...
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When Your Tolerance Is Down A Quart
I have a theory about, when something unpleasant keeps occurring in your life. It’s an obstacle keeping you from personal growth, because the moment you learn to deal with it appropriately, it never...
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Best Story of the Week…January 22nd
I stop at the corner of 88th and Third, pull my mask down to quickly blow my nose. A middle-aged woman in a snowsuit, is wielding a red wagon right towards me with a cat in it, wearing a ski sweater...
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