Down-n-Dirty Blog on Relationships

Published by admin on September 4, 2016

You Can’t NOT Find True Love

  It’s a bold claim, I know. But I believe it, whole-heart-ed-ly. It comes with a catch, though. (Luckily, not a catch-22.) You have to really live your life. In other words, you have to be an individual. Single. Separate. Discrete. Independent. You’ve got to go on a journey that is yours and yours alone….

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Published by admin on September 2, 2016

The King of Christiania

  It’s rare to meet such a man. He sits quietly outside his small studio as people walk past. His life’s work, oil paintings, are strewn about the floor and hung up, both beside him and inside his studio. They do the talking for him. One painting immediately grabs me. It’s a picture of a sunset over some…

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Published by admin on August 26, 2016

I Surrender

  Whence last we met, I was talking about my messy, non-linear life. About the value of not waiting–but being in the thick of things. Surrendering completely to what is, and dropping the fear that if we don’t prepare for after, well, we won’t be prepared and our lives will go to shit. Most of us don’t live like…

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Published by admin on August 19, 2016

I Should Have Been a Shepherd

  I don’t have many regrets in life, but here’s one. By an exceedingly strange set of circumstances (you’ll have to trust me on this one–or take me out to dinner and get me to divulge the full story), I met a woman one night in Israel that made my heart skip many a beat. Her name was…

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Published by admin on August 16, 2016

My Messy (Non-Linear) Life

  For the past month or so, I’ve sat down to write, had a good start to a piece, only to then hit the save to draft button. Translation: no courage. My excuse was that my writing wasn’t good enough. Not tonight. Many people take a path in life (vis-a-vis their career) that looks pretty linear. Usually, it involves some…

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Published by admin on July 21, 2016

5 Strategies to Stay Sane in an Insane World

One of my favorite Hasidic stories. From Rebbe Nachman of Breslov (Rabbi from the 18th century): A king once told his prime minister, who was also his good friend: “I see in the stars that everyone who eats from this year’s grain harvest is going to go mad. What do you think we should do?” The…

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Published by admin on July 6, 2016

Defy Entropy

  I am out of control. There you go. Admitting it is always the hardest part. Lately, it’s like I’ve been possessed by some kind of lust demon. I know what you’re thinking. Alex… we know this. It’s like like I’m 13 again, and my cells have been hijacked by nano-robots with one and only one directive: to get me laid….

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