As I started initially thinking about this post (now in its fifth year!) a few weeks ago, I felt this would be an especially boring entry given what has felt like an unremarkable year. …

I had a great plan to kick off 2020. Since Meghan and I couldn’t be together at midnight (she was performing a holiday show with Second City and I was performing with Hot Seat at iO [R.I.P.]), I cooked up a plot to host a 3 A.M. celebratory feast. Before…

2019 S.M.A.R.T. GOALS Earlier this year, a group of colleagues read a book called “The Power of Habit” by the New York Times writer Charles Duhigg for our office book club. The book essentially explores how individuals, organizations and societies as a whole develop both positive and negative habits. On…

Two years ago at this time, I was feeling a constant sense of tension: I coveted free time, but when it occurred, I felt paralyzed by possibility. There were so many things I could do, I’d feel completely overwhelmed by choices. Rather than doing anything, instead, I’d spend whole afternoons…

Since social media’s primary purpose is to let us talk to ourselves with the illusion we’re talking to others, two election hot takes I’ve been mulling over today: 1. I don’t have any great love for JB Pritzker, and I didn’t vote for him in the primary, but the notion…

Fox News host Sean Hannity is a big fan of rhetorical questions. For instance, before a commercial he likes to ask viewers questions like this: “Did Hillary Clinton attack Benghazi in order to sell nuclear weapons to Russia?…

Close your eyes and think about the things that make you unhappy: the feeling that you are doing more yet accomplishing less each day; the sense that your life doesn’t stack up to the ones you see your friends living on social media; the fear that at some point, your…

If you are like me, you spend most of your free time wondering how you should be spending your free time. …

Call Jill. Ask Jill if Billy really doesn’t like hamburgers anymore, or if he’s just saying that because he’s confused and angry and processing a lot of change. *********************** Call Jill. Tell her you’re sorry for calling again. It’s just that Billy says he’ll only eat hamburgers if it’s the…