I get it, you’re home and likely bored. Self-quarantining has that effect on people. What does the average, bored, under-inspired person do in times of crisis? Yup, you guessed it…. Read more

Because serendipity usually works to my advantage, my first, and likely only 80s cruise went off with only a few glitches last week. If there was ever a time to… Read more

I don’t typically notice art. There, I said it. Unless something features a particularly bold color schemata or offers up a brigade of quirky mixed media, it’s usually doesn’t garner… Read more

  You know that term “salt of the earth””when you’re referring to a fine, upstanding individual? Well, my uncle Tom Bryan was more like “salt of the universe” or “salt… Read more

Well, that was horrific. I just ate whatever I wanted for two solid weeks. It was awesomely awful. 14 days of gluten gluttony. 14 days of sugar serendipity. 14 days… Read more

20 years ago—almost to the date—I was furiously putting together a demo reel for my friend JC to submit to cruise ship companies. His goal? To become a performer, see… Read more

I saw a recent tweet that said, “I’m going to stay up until midnight on December 31st just so I can watch 2019 die.” While I’m not quite that fanatical, I’m… Read more

Did I ever tell you about the Christmas that Dad got me a Bowie knife? Like, an actual honest-to-God, Rambo-esque Bowie knife? Very shiny. Very deadly. Of course, I was… Read more

  When I announced to the world on January 1st I was giving up sugar in 2019, quite a few people scoffed/mocked/harrumphed me. I don’t blame them. But as they… Read more

A third of the way through Cats, I actually paused and thought to myself, “Has there ever been a more god-awful movie in the history of cinema?” In a word—no…. Read more