(Have you read Chapter 2 of Morse?) I lost my job. Technically I was fired, but the job was lost by my inactions. I can’t remember which boss ended up breaking the “news” to me, but I do remember him advising me to sort out my personal life and contact the company in the future….
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(Have you read Chapter 1 of Morse?) The cat has taken to watching the mice run across the floor. This behavior is an improvement, perhaps triggered by the lack of “hustle” in my new life. I, up until this week, was the cat’s entertainment. Robotically rushing from stove-top kitchen nightmares to agency mock-ups of product…
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(Have you read the Introduction of Morse?) It’s not so much the achievement of a goal that matters, but the winding path you take in pursuit of completion. And I know all too well the unfulfillment of success. The disgust and self-loathing at the bottom of a bag of potato chips; or, in this instance,…
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A circle is a pleasant shape. It’s the sun, the moon, the tires on a carriage in Central Park, the campaign button of someone who shouldn’t be President of the PTA much less the free world. A circle is familiar and we know a perfect circle is perfect, but a casual glance leaves any circle…
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Everyone loves a good mystery. Except for cigar smokers. Brothers and sisters of the leaf want to know everything there is to know about the dried plant leaves that they’re about to smoke. Who blended these leaves? Where were these leaves rolled? Did the leaves’ mothers play Beethoven to them while they were in the…
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