"Life, liberty and the pursuit of sanity."
All too often as a resident of the Big Apple, I find myself jaded by a work schedule, the inconveniently placed tourists needing to get out of my way, and the general foot traffic of city dwellers. It can become all too consuming to work and want to get the hell home. I’ve written about... Continue Reading →
Photo by Tirachard Kumtanom on Pexels.com I say this as I sit here 9 days into my marriage, a little bit disappointed. The original intent to document daily love letters to my beautiful bride for the next 365 days but my body had other plans. The day after our nuptials (more about those later) I... Continue Reading →
Photo by Anton Makarenko on Pexels.com Engagements are all too consuming. Sometimes in the greatest of ways as you ready yourself and your partner emotionally to embark on a lifetime together and other times you stare at your bank account and wonder how the hell you’re actually going to pull the whole thing off. Did... Continue Reading →
As of yesterday, I hit my 500th follower on my Twitter! In honor of such milestones, I thought I would finally utilize the open-ended nomination that Anxiety and Liz so graciously offered for this Vogue 73 entry. This post is meant to be a parody of the 73 questions Vogue asks celebrities. I don’t have... Continue Reading →
I think this weekend proved to me that I have a little bit of re-adjusting my schedule to do. I was hoping to promise a 30 prompts for 30 days series, but I fell short. However, this won’t stop me, even if I need to carry over into the month of June I am determined... Continue Reading →
St. Patrick’s Day was one of the many holidays that took the face of what tradition means to me. Every year, my mother’s family and ours would share the Americanized meal of corn beef and cabbage with soda bread, and our green “beer”. As a child, all of this felt so regular. It was just... Continue Reading →
By definition normal is conforming to a standard; the usual, typical or expected. Normal could also be defined to gage a state of condition. Normal by definition is pretty clear cut when it’s applied in the right way. However, normal in society starts to get these patchy gray areas of falsified perfection which can be... Continue Reading →
Mental Health is a slippery slope to navigate in general. But, when it comes to treatment it gets even trickier. No one case is the same so what works for somebody else may not necessarily work for you and guess what? That’s okay! There are many different positive ways to deal with mental health and... Continue Reading →
I am born and raised in New York, the borough of Queens to be exact. While Queens was not as chaotic as Manhattan, I still consider my upbringing to be Urban. We played Manhunt in the street, we ran through sprinklers on the concrete, and backyards were foreign lands. As kids, we lived off the... Continue Reading →
