Dear President Trump, I know you like winning. You write about it a lot (or someone does on your behalf). Either way, you’re on message and I know you like winning, you like winners and there’s no place in your America for losers. I get it. For the record, it’s not like I’m a huge fan of losers – like it’s some sort of weird fetish of mine or something. I think I’m just learning to manage my expectations differently than you and we might have a different definition of “loser”

I have two pears sitting on my counter. Seeing fruit outside the fridge, in a bowl, a plant near a window, a photo from a trip hung near the piano – these are all signs that things are going to be ok. They are connections to life that exists beyond these four walls – whether in an orchard, a nursery or a vacation destination. They are things that will remain constant in what increasingly seems like a life uncertain. A pear. A houseplant. A photo. They are not dependent on the

It’s not anal. It’s mental. (I think I may have just identified what I want written on my tombstone.) Anyhoo – Something happened almost immediately after the US election on November 8th last year – I stopped turning to cnn.com. Or watching the news, referring to newspapers or even worse, political Facebook posts. I didn’t do this because I figured there was nothing I could do anyway and so I might as well assume the ostrich position and stick my head in the sand. I did it be

I don’t want this to sound all melodramatic but I had a terrible night’s sleep. I woke up with a profound sense of loss and despair. I am committed to meditating in the morning before my day gets started whenever I can and did so again this morning. It was hard. As many times as I tried to return to my breath and the present moment, my mind had other plans. Meditation practice teaches us to acknowledge what we are feeling by simply naming it without judgment. I was sad. Reall

I’m done with this election. 100%. Anyone who still doesn’t know who they’re voting for, if they’re voting, is holding out for something that is never going to come. I had a comedy fundraiser last night at a church and as I was heading back getting ready to pick up my son, it dawned on me that all the things I riffed about on stage – the struggles of parenting, marriage, growing older, dealing with pretentious people – these things have no party affiliation. It’s the connecti

This man could actually be the leader of the free world. I think we can remove the word “free”. I have not met one person who supports Donald Trump, not one. Which seems unlikely given the fact that the more vitriol and hate he spews into the system, the more popular he gets. Yet, he is where he is in this circus of an election process. I am all for difference of opinion. In fact, I have a healthy respect for people who support other Republican candidates, even though I don’t