Was a year that happened The plague has rendered time moot; we live in an age of timelessness and timefullness, one where the passage of time is both felt and not felt, where we are unaware of its passage and completely aware of how it diminishes us. In 2021 I…

…is a thing people who write on Medium write about on Medium I’m not happy with a lot of things. I’m not going to list them but suffice to say the state of Medium isn’t in the top, oh, 100 things I’m not happy with. Don’t flatter yourself, Medium writer. …

(a country song) I didn’t know you left me I thought you were in the bathroom You’ve been constipated lately Spending your time in the bathroom. I didn’t think you’d ever leave me. Maybe you weren’t suffering Or suffering another kind of suffering Maybe you were plotting Spending your time in the bathroom…

It’s true. I just remembered. I even had a blog. I wrote in it just recently because I felt bad. The post was mostly about guilt and neglect. That’s not a good way to feel about something you created and nurtured and pay for, annually. …

Not to make light of suffering But I was feeling it and I said it: Why did I say it? Why not? I present to you, THE WORLD. Exhibit A: It might seem Afghanistan has always been this way, and you might be right, and there are a…

Because business is business Many of you know me as a writer. And many of you also realize, probably, that writing doesn’t always pay the bills. The little ones and the big ones. That’s why I am in the midst of announcing my new consultancy. This is the website if…

This is, quite obviously, a pandemic-related problem. Plus due to the fact I haven’t worked a “real” 9–5 type job since March 2020. And then due to the fact that days just melted into each other, weekends stopped making sense, the news was similar almost every day. I met the…

A bit of professionalism on my part In the coming weeks, I will launch arbaStrategies, a strategic consultancy/advisory that aims to help brands navigate content, messaging and branding in a complex, noisy world. Every brand has a story waiting to be told. Better. My goal is to help brands do…

A list where want and need combine Go to a bar. Preferably my local. Go to a restaurant and sit at the bar and eat and drink and talk shit. Not talk about the plague. Not having to hear the phrase “in these challenging times” until the next plague. …