You find yourself sitting at a table with your own family, and you realize you’re in a foreign country. My father, in a fit of bravery, calls his own brother

You want to understand the philosophy, the reasoning behind it all? You don’t need a self-help book or a goddamn guru. You just need a dark room, a bottle of

I had my Black Pearl over on our every-other-Friday. It was a routine. We’d drink, we’d talk, we’d end up in the sack. But there were always two elephants in

You scroll through the dating apps, and it’s a goddamn comedy. Every other profile, a woman staring into the camera, trying to look both sexy and profound, and the caption

You see those old photographs sometimes. Seal Beach, 1960. A bunch of people laid out on the sand, and every last one of them looks like they just finished a

I had my Black Pearl over on our every-other-Friday. It was a routine. We’d drink, we’d talk, we’d end up in the sack. But there were always two elephants in

Here’s what a man really needs when he’s standing at that crossroads, with the ruins of his life behind him and a whole lot of nothing up ahead. First, you

So this is the issue, isn’t it? The junction. You spend half your life fighting your way out of the cage, and you finally get free, only to find yourself

There’s that scene in the movie, The Matrix. The traitor, the rat, he’s sitting in a fancy restaurant, cutting into a thick, juicy prime rib. And he says it, the

You want to understand the difference between companionship and a relationship? First, you have to understand my grandfather, Johnny. The man looked like Desi Arnaz and had the philosophy of