I can easily recall the entire week three years ago, leading up to the conspicuously dated, Friday, the 13th. What I was doing, what I was thinking, expecting, and not expecting, which of course is precisely what was to follow. My wife had expressed concern about this new viral plague…

Putting our baby, Peyton, to sleep, whether for a nap or for the night, has never been easy… especially for me, who lacks my wife’s physiological advantage to match what is probably her more calming energy and cooling constitution. …

I got some great feedback from last week’s newsletter, not the least of which in the form of an inquiry and idea for elaboration on what is a “mindful” amount of animal protein for one to consume. …

Most blessings in life bring particular challenges, often in the form of implicitly required discipline — other times in the form of added responsibility and/or reliance from others. Think fame, wealth, or parenting. Most of us are familiar with the inverse Buddhist principle, that every challenge brings particular blessings, in…

As we traverse another quiet surge of coronavirus, I feel regretfully compelled to revisit the subject, as well as my soapbox, both of which I’d been intending and hoping to avoid for the past several months, as I too, am quite “over it.” I say: “quiet surge,” because we hear…

I first saw Myq Kaplan on stage at Caroline’s on Broadway. I rarely got to perform there, so like any responsibly struggling comedian, I would pop in on occasion, usually en route to my less coveted spots for the night. It was a Saturday and Myq was on stage for…

Do you suppose the transition from life into death is as unbearably confounding as that of “death” into life? Suddenly we will be thrust into a world where we are practically blind, if not seeing through a blurred fog, and if discomfort should arise, should we feel exhausted, hungry, filthy…

One of the best jokes I ever wrote was about suicide. It wasn’t a “suicide bit,” making light of one of life’s darkest subjects, not some lazily scripted satire of someone I disliked or disagreed with. Too many comedians recycle the punch line: “Just kill yourself,” to follow some hypothetical…

Last week I went to a sports bar on 3rd Avenue with my brothers to watch the hockey, basketball, and baseball games all at once — a true bro-fest that would make my wife shutter, we found a bar that had great outdoor seating with big screen TV’s lining the…