The fourth chapter of my book starts something like this: “Where are you from?” Anytime I travel I always seem to get this same perplexing question. Well, nowhere. Everywhere. I don’t know how to explain my movement over the years. “My parents were carnies,” I lie. “We traversed the earth. I also spent a lot [...]
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What Makes Us Happy?
Someone from a far off land wrote me and asked me what made me happy. This seems like an easy enough question to answer, but I quickly realized that many things one may think are states of happiness are really something else entirely. Ego, flattery, even one too many vodka tonics confuse our minds. Is [...]
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