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I remember when I would carry a collection of business cards in my front chest pocket. These were old business cards, cards that I would’ve thrown out except that they were awfully useful to take notes on, to takes notes about ideas I wanted to write about, things I wanted to turn into Two Okapis […]

Maybe it is just too much right now?

The aching sadness in my chest is making me feel like I’ve been hit by one of the Long Island Rail Road trains I have to take every morning. It hurts and I am not sure what is going on.
Yes, it is Monday morning and those have historically been tough on me.
Yes, there is no […]

Day Two

In my second of two days of mourning I am realizing more and more about how devastating an impact my mother’s intentional absence from my life is. Last week a friend of mine from work asked me for lunch. I thought she was joking and didn’t even respond until she said something later and I […]

Crisis of confidence

I’ve known since I was nine years old – not coincidentally the same age I started therapy – that I wanted to make people feel better, to make people smile. I remember being a kid and thinking I wanted to make the whole world laugh, make everyone in it feel better. But I actually had […]

Excavating and integrating while living simultaneously

Yesterday afternoon I had the pleasure of sitting next to my friend I met on the same train over two years ago. While there was almost nothing new I could tell her about my life because she reads – even subscribes – to Two Okapis, it did give her a little chance to comment on […]

An update: She apologized

Several people have asked me (or Gem) whatever happened with my coworker who was so rude to me in a meeting a couple of weeks ago. Gem has been urging me to provide an update and I usually listen to what she tells me to do (I’m a good husband that way).
My co-worker apologized.
She actually […]