Recently New York had just been ranked for being the unhappiest state in the country. My experience today could certainly tell you why. Since I live in an apartment complex that assigns one parking space per apartment, it’s only natural that we would have an overflow of cars, most of which have no choice but…

After checking out the studio once inhabited by gremlins from hell, I happened to stumble across another apartment listing while surfing online, this one in a co-op that was literally next to work. The grounds were gorgeous and I had been interested in living there for a while, but since the apartments had long been…

When a guy lives with his parents for so… very… agonizingly… long… he tends to take certain things for granted. While I contributed to paying for most of the rent and bills, Mommy would always pretty much take care of the rest. All those basic necessities of life (like toilet paper) would magically replenish itself…

Remember Red, hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies. – Andy Dufresne, The Shawshank Redemption There are times when life really gets me down, and during those moments I’m often guilty of having a defeatist attitude about things. When I see a hurdle that seems insurmountable,…