After Mom died, I went into a funk. I drank way too much and started eating poorly. I don't remember exactly when but I remember the year it happened. One day, I had my shirt off and saw myself in the mirror. It's not that I didn't like what I…
Almost thirty years ago, I had my first misfortunate encounter of a psychic vampire. Afterwards, I felt like I had lost a part of my soul and it took quite awhile to recover from that attack. If you have no idea what I'm talking about, read on. You need to…
There are certain things that get better with age. However, metabolism isn’t one of them. Awhile back, I took a good, hard look in the mirror and saw a few pounds of belly fat that could definitely go away. Playing the odds, it’s OK to store fat elsewhere. On your…
A few years ago, I had a long discussion about the decline of masculinity and sexuality with a heterosexual woman that I’m strictly on platonic terms with. She’s a big fan of 50 Shades of Grey, both the books and the movie. For the record, I have neither read the…
I'm an artist, not a fighter. But in junior high and high school, American football was everything to me. In junior high, I legitimately thought I was going to make the NFL. Around my sophomore year of high school, I realized it was a pipe dream and went into a…