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Surrender

28 Mar

Do not go gentle into that good night.  Rage, rage against the dying of the light.  ~ Dylan Thomas   I have always identified with fighters. My great heroes in childhood were scrappy boys and girls: Tatum O’Neil’s tomboy pitcher from “The Bad News Bears”; the bloody and beaten kids from the wrong side of [...]

Couples and Money: Finding my balance

3 May

By: Joseph R. Sanok, MA, LLP, LPC, NCC It all started when we were shopping for mayonnaise. I mean, we didn’t go to the store just for mayo, it’s not like we have an all mayo diet, but it is now known as the “Mayo Incident.” I would say that it started years before that [...]

A Brief Interruption to Our Regularly Scheduled Programming…

1 May

Hey, y’all! Head’s up – this is not my typical blog post. If you are not interested in entrepreneurship, social media, blogging, or small business, you can stop reading here and go about your day. My regular blog will be back on Thursday as always. If you are still reading, I want to let you [...]

It’s 2:21am: Do you know where your mind is?

30 Jan

Dear Reader: Occasionally I go through bouts of insomnia, falling asleep just fine but waking up at 2am to worried thoughts. A couple of years ago, I dubbed this phenomenon “Middle of the Night Brain” or MOTNB for short. Below find my musings from that late night long ago.    I’m taking a colossal risk [...]

Maybe its Time We Redefine Success…

22 Dec

I love sitting here at Camino bakery, right in the heart of downtown. It’s about 4pm. I ran into my writer friend Michael and we talked poetry and blogging. People who work downtown come in and out for their last hit of caffeine for the day. Mostly bankers and other white collar types who work in [...]

This Post Won’t Inspire You…

25 Sep

It’s Sunday night, about 9:30pm. It’s been an emotionally exhausting week and weekend. Life’s been tossing a lot of curve balls at me lately, and I’m doing my best to keep up. And right now, I’m tired and ready for sleep. I woke up this morning, looked at the work that’s piled up over the [...]

Only One Thing Left to Do…

24 Sep

At the end of a long day, and emotional day full of ups and downs and sideways, there’s only one thing left to do: clean up the mess. Wash the breakfast dishes at 10pm and put them in the rack to dry. Clean up the bits of chewed up sock left behind by the dog. [...]

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