Author Archives: JRL

If New Orleans teaches you anything, it’s that everyone is always on their way to some kind of parade. The whole of life is a p’rade. We are either building and decorating the float, riding it, throwing something from it, … Continue reading →

Sometimes, staying motivated is a slippery slope. Well, maybe slippery is not the right word. Often, I feel like Sisyphus. I spend all day pushing an incredibly heavy and unwieldy boulder up the hill, only to find that when I … Continue reading →

When we say, “at the end of the day’, to somehow provide justification for whatever decision we just made that some observers might consider extremely selfish, short-sighted, and perhaps even senselessly stupid, do we mean that day, or some other … Continue reading →

The point would be of course to keep going. After all to let such a talent go to waste would be so much worse than seeing it die young. Live fast, die young, and leave a beautiful annuity. How much … Continue reading →

I never do what I want, that’s such an obvious reason. That makes everything that you want come and go like the seasons. It doesn’t matter sometimes whether you’re coming or going. You either fight with the current or end … Continue reading →

Between the past that lingers on and that not quite yet happened time we call the future, but it’s not, we plan and fret and carry on as if all time were just a thing we use to measure out, … Continue reading →

It is what it seems to be OR it isn’t what it seems to be. One of those seemingly diametric expressions of reality perception defines [and is the underlying fundamental truth of everything that ever was, is, or will be … Continue reading →