Your Mistaken Identity...

Yes, I am on Facebook. But I had what you might call a bit of an identity crisis when I went to create my profile there. The crisis was that my identity isn’t defined by activities, interests, music, movies, books, television, political views, religious views, and what I’m looking for. Therefore, I didn’t fill in any of those blanks. It seemed like such a diminishment. It seemed like such a misplaced idea of what...

“Never Better”...

It can be hard for me to answer ordinary, everyday questions with the expected responses. For example, when somebody asks, “How are you?” I invariably answer “Never better.” This is often met with incredulity or amusement, or with a follow-up question of “What is the reason for that?” I then have to answer, “For no reason at all.” I’m really not trying to be a wise guy. Nor am I trying artificially to...