If you follow me, these are must-reads — Stuck in Neutral is available in almost every school and public library in the United States.

Yes, you too can become a legend!! — According to Ernest Becker in his Pulitzer Prize Winning book The Denial of Death, he hypothesizes that virtually everything we do psychologically is part of an “Immortality Project,” an effort to convince ourselves that we can avoid dying and becoming personally extinct: Jesus worship, publishing an award-winning book, seeing your…

The things we’re most afraid of offer the deepest, fastest path to full-life adulthood — unless you live in Florida — The recent war of our 95% magical thinking (Jesus grows limbs back on lepers and floats around in clouds and stuff, and believe it or you’re going to hell for ALL FUCKIN’ ETERNITY!!!!) idiots VS that 5% of us who proudly accept that maybe this view of reality is a…

Trump fan hopes jailhouse friendship with R. Kelly will convince sentencing judge to go easy on him.* Click on the subtitle for the full story and don’t confuse the pic above of a vicious killed taking a dump, with John Travolta, the actor playing him. *BTW, the guy in the…

SOMETIMES HEALING OURSELVES IS HARDER THAN IT SOUNDS! — Hemingway By putting that shotgun in his mouth and pulling the trigger, to me, he was typing “The End” to any message of courage, heart, justice, truth, or any other virtues he once pretended or attempted to embrace. This is because, to put it very simply, in life: you gut it…

The BEATLES: The Ultimate Unabridged, Click-baiting Trick — A hopefully helpful hint for attracting viewers and readers for your work here on fuckin’ Medium . . . and I refer to it profanely, b/c so little of what Medium always does, changes incomprehensible to any but some mad algorithm that can’t be counted on to help you make…

If you stare at her long enough . . . — Stare, or at her, really STARE . . . For long enough, for a looonnnnggggg time

Yet here I go again — Back in November 2021, I posted a piece, a short poem about my energy and involvement here on Medium (see below). Not long after that posting I met some interesting other writers here, some of whom I’m still in contact with, a few not so much or not at all…

First dates can be kind of tricky, especially when you’re both 13 years old — thank god we didn’t know then, all the shit we’d learn later! — The first date I ever had Was with an adorable Little blonde named Beverly, Circa 1964.