Dear Meli, You know how they say to follow your bliss? But what about paying your rent? I have a job that I don’t like very much. But it pays really well. Also, I’m not sure what else I’d want to do. But I know that I don’t feel fulfilled. The...
A crappy life is, well, crappy. Right? One could say it’s hard to argue otherwise. But then one wouldn’t be a hard-core Goofball nerd who is always looking to argue against crappy and for happy. Which is what led Melissa and I to watch a movie called Happy...
Change is the one thing that never changes. Don’t you find that annoying? Maybe you don’t. Maybe you’re one of those nifty people that actually embraces the fact that everything is always changing all the time. It’s not that I never embrace...
When it comes to finding a reason not to give up, I like to turn to the words of old dead people. One of my favorite old dead people is Ernest Holmes. Ernest said a lot of great things but the best thing he ever said, in my humble opinion, was this: Principle is not...
I’ve always been annoyed by people with good posture. You know the type. They have a stick magic fairy wand that’s been shoved gently positioned up their butt into the center of their magic fairy body. Maybe it was an overreaction, but people with good...
Are you a rule follower? Or are you one of those people who get a tiny thrill when you break a rule every now and then? I’ve noticed that I seem to be surrounded by rebellious types. Maybe that’s because a majority of the folks I know have made a practice...
