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TRY FREE

TRY FREE

For kicks and giggles, I am trying FREE! Pre-experiment Post TRY FREE I'm going to live off of what ever I can find in the house. That's right, frozen peas and mystery meat SALUTE! Gift cards in my wallet, points accumulated on my ATM and credit cards. My closest...

3 Year F.I.R.E. Anniversary

3 Year F.I.R.E. Anniversary

Howdy readers. I hope this post finds you in good spirits. What a year right? Going outside, COVID boosters, plane debacles and once again touching public bathroom door knobs with our bare hands. Being in your feelings (addressing mental illness) is the "new black"...

Reflections On The Disco Picnic

Reflections On The Disco Picnic

Music Is My Sanctuary, Music is My Life Right about now, I'de be headed over to Jackson Park on the South Side of Chicago with fellow "house heads/life-long friends" to my absolutely HANDS DOWN favorite music festival of all time! I wrote this essay several years ago...

Instructions for (WORK) LIFE………..

Instructions for (WORK) LIFE………..

Have you ever seen the Instructions for Life by the Dalai Lama? There are many iterations, but the general gist is to be a good human and to do upon others as you would want them to do upon you. I completely love these instructions. So much so, I've had them...

Before F.I.R.E. was a thing

Before F.I.R.E. was a thing

I’ll be 50 next January and I’ve learned a few things in those years but some things come naturally to me. Here are a few of my decidedly unconventional and quirky ways I got to F.I.R.E. with a few dirty little secrets thrown in too my friends. The lion’s share of...

Ode To My Bed

Ode To My Bed

Come metaphorical rain or shine you are always there for me You are my favorite place on earth In my Sinéad O’Connor voice “Nothing Compares 2 U….” On good days and especially bad days I look forward to coming home to you You grant me endless hours of solitude, as...