It was the early 90s. I was living in Los Angeles and working for Steven Spielberg. Not as an actor in his movies but as a waiter in his restaurant. I was a successful waiter, but I wanted to be a successful actor, so I was auditioning. I was auditioning a lot. I would get […]

There’s a song in “The Life,” a short-lived mid-90s Broadway musical, that contains the lyric, “You’ve got to use what you’ve got, to get what you want, before what you want is gone.” If you’ve been diagnosed with MS like me, you know your life is now a race against the clock, and we have […]

Only Worry About Yourself As you go through your life, only worry about yourself. Why not? Nobody else is going to worry about you. Whatever you do, don’t try to be of service to anyone else. They wouldn’t appreciate it anyway. Relating to and connecting with people is for suckers! Don’t Try When you have […]

There are tons of books about writing and I’ve read them all! I’ve read On Writing by Stephen King, The War Of Art by Steven Pressfield, The Art Of Dramatic Writing by Lajos Ergi, and, of course, Bird By Bird by Anne Lamott. Along with about a million other books on writing! I’ve read all those books about writing because if I’m reading […]

I’m late in posting my Atomic Essay for the day because I had to go to the Vanderbilt MS Clinic to get an infusion of Ocrevus, a drug hopefully slows down the lesions forming on my nervous system because of Multiple Sclerosis. I hate that I have to do this twice a year. But rather […]

Yep. It’s Monday. Almost everybody hates Mondays. It’s a fact. A recent study showed that 8 out of 10 employees surveyed hate Mondays!Do you hate Mondays? I hope not. But if you do, I have a little exercise you can do that will turn your Monday frown upside down. And it only takes two minutes! […]