“We’re not playing your stupid game.” the virtual-schooled, teenager informed me. “Marriages and mortgages are a fate worse than death?” an insightful, lovely, 17-year-old high school sophomore told me, as we randomly chatted while sitting side-by-side at tables inside Starbucks. …

Some think they’re entitled to perfection…maybe they are. Every now and then I read a ton of profiles on dating apps to see what women are looking for in a man…here’s a synopsis…

My AI writing tool will gladly churn out vanilla, “sugar-high” articles like, “8 Pathways to Happiness,” every few hours, and since it’s all about quantity, I can’t lose Over the past year, Medium has been: a daily friend, euphoric beyond measure, a gut punch, a synthetic high, and an irreplacable…

But we’re only earning 5 times more…the numbers don’t add up The raw numbers: Homes In 1970, the average cost of a home was $17,000. In 2022, the average cost of a home is $348,000. That is 20 times higher than in 1970 (an almost 2000% increase.) Back then, banks would extend mortgages up…

Technology is enabling a ‘shoot first; ask questions later’ dynamic where deep relationships are cut off and destroyed over foolish miscommunication I’m a lover, not a fighter, but geez, this digital warfare were engaging in by ghosting, blocking, and de-platforming anyone who hurts our feelings — even in the slightest…

Twitter suspended me for using the word “beaten,” and my car, out of nowhere, told me to “consider taking a coffee break” Twitter suspension I’ve been on Twitter since 2011 and am far from a provocateur. I never use inflammatory language and I read my tweets over and over before I hit…

Who am I supposed to love? Our politics are turning us into disgraceful hypocrites Our country is going through the equivalent of an adolescent testing their boundaries…by wedging their parents into pretzels over moral and ethical considerations — and forcing each other into extreme positions as a means of getting politically even. There is no reason we can’t…

And more valuable than you realize You control a hell of a lot in this world — you are your own superman. What happens to you, determines how other people view you and whether you’re accepted or rejected; if you’re rejected, how you proceed, determines your destiny. Haters will hate…

But hypocrisy blows my mind to the point of fearing marriage, or perhaps I’m just adjusting to the new sexual revolution Let me start with myself. I am far from a gigolo but also don’t have clean hands when it comes to relationships and marriage. 23 years ago, the woman…