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Today is World AIDS Day. Read the 2025 post. It’s my own little personal tradition that I publish an essay on World AIDS Day. I’ve been doing this for about five years now. Emma and Hester of the Safe Space podcast quoted AIDS Activist & Historian Sarah Schulman’s words, “These people, our friends, are rarely…

[Florida is] a weird place, it’s surreal. It’s so close, but you feel like you’re in another world or on an island.” – Jemima Kirke “I like Florida. Everything is in the ’80s. The temperature, the ages and the IQs.” – George Carlin “Florida is different things to different people.” – Perry Chang Journaling Excerpts: “No-fault…

“Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.” Helen Keller “Extreme fear cannot fight nor fly.” William Shakespeare Journaling excerpts: “I love the new BB cream from MDSolarSciences.” May 30, 2023 ________ died. Is it because she was depressed she wasn’t with…

Any transition is easier if you believe in yourself and your talent. Priyanka Chopra Jonas Journal excerpts: Someone asked me: “What is something you haven’t seen or heard since the new millennium?”  I said seeing the movie Big. March 30, 2023 Pluto enters Aquarius today for the first time since after country was founded. March…

“Life is about how much you can take and keep fighting, how much you can suffer and keep moving forward.” -Anderson Silva

I had an idea for a blog post yesterday after an exchange with someone. I was wearing one of my oversized, now vintage, “I Climbed the Great Wall” sweatshirts.  Someone asked, “You climbed the great wall?”  I paused for a moment to contemplate the question and replied, “why, yes. Yes, I did.” I kept a…

“I’ve always believe if you put the work in, the results will come.” – Michael Jordan “[T]he[y] left [their] accumulated grief behind.” – from one of my favorite books, 100 Years of Solitude Márquez, Gabriel García. One Hundred Years of Solitude. Editorial Sudamericana, 1967.

A pep talk from yours truly, truly, truly outrageous. Why finding your “why” is important your why is uniquely yours. (It’s possible that most know that Simon Sinek popularized this concept with his book. Have you read it?) “being a parent” or “being a child” or “or being a young professional” or “being on the…

“What I like about photographs is that they capture a moment that’s gone forever, impossible to reproduce.” — Karl Lagerfeld Wilson, Eric. “In Orbit Around Lagerfeld.” The New York Times, October 25, 2007. https://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/25/fashion/shows/25ROW.html. It’s hard to believe it’s already the third month of 2023! How is your year going so far?