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At the Chicago Impro

November 07, 2009

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At the Chicago Improv Festival East Coast Regional at ImprovBoston

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November 8th, 2016

I have tried to stay quiet about politics so I'll try to be brief. One vote represents a complicated balance of issues that affect the world, our nation, our community and us as individuals. In the end, we measure which candidate best represents our needs and calms our fears and then cast our ballot.
I try to keep an open mind going into every election but, yes, I have my own bias. My mind was finally made up early in the campaign after two quotes that I felt were attacks on people in my life..not just colleagues, friends and extended family but my mother, my stepdad (a 25-year retired veteran of the Chicago Police Department), and my wife. Although these quotes weren't directed at them personally, it used a broad enough brush that has allowed others to see them through the tint of these statements...and I don't want my daughters to grow up in a world where their family members are judged first on where they came from. That is not the America I know and love.
I don't bel…

A final thought concerning driving in Boston

I loved living in New England; I loved living in Massachusetts; and...I almost loved living in Boston. I really wanted to fully love living here because it's such an amazing city...but I could'nt. Why? The weather? No. The cramped living space? No. The accents? No. Why then? What could be the one thing that leaves a permanent stain on what is an otherwise great place to live. It's because of THEM. You know who they are. They are responsible for you being late to meetings, driving down one way streets and speeding through red lights. They leave you foaming at the mouth with such rage that for a moment you understand how murder can happen. That's right...it's these fucking drivers and pedestrians. I've never seen such a poor display of common road courtesy. These self-entitled mindless pricks that make up a majority of the people on the roads of this city make it a misery to live here.

I'm not saying that it's Bostonians, per se. But there is something ab…

An Annual Meditation

For about the last decade I've been saving quotes that have resonated with me for whatever reason. They speak to my morals, ethics, beliefs, dreams, selfish desires, whatever.
Over the last few years, I've gotten in the habit of reading them on 1st of the year. It's the closest thing I have to a resolution. For me, they are a way of recalibrating my life and my direction. They help remind me what's important and what my goals are...details that can be forgotten over 365 days.
Throughout the year I add some...and on the 1st of the year, I always end up removing a few. Quotes that no longer resonate with me; they no longer help recalibrate me; they no longer help fuel the fire that drives me all year long.
Below is where that list is now. I share it because maybe they'll have a similar affect on you...or maybe they'll mean nothing. That's fine to. If it makes you feel any better, I'm also posting it here so that I have an online copy in case I lose my wo…

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