Very few writers really know what they are doing until they’ve done it. Nor do they go about their business feeling dewy and thrilled. They do not type a few stiff warm-up sentences and then find themselves bounding along like […]

“ I don’t know how to . . .” is bullshit. My business partner and I had several conversations today about how we can grow Sullivan|Simon into the legal ghostwriting force it can become. We brainstormed about marketing, access to […]

Do you know which of the fifty states borders New Jersey to the west? I have ridden the Port Authority Transit Corporation (PATCO) Speedline train to and fro’ work since January 2000. The above-pictured map is located at each door […]

“Comparison is the thief of joy”. – Theodore Roosevelt I strolled behind an individual walking a dog on Market Street today. They (the person, not the canine) were overweight. I thought, “I’m fortunate not to struggle with my weight.” And […]

Sniff, sniff. Do you smell that? Is it me? Wait, is it you? After lifting, I went to the second floor of the gym to bang out a treadmill session. The digital clock on the wall read 4:34, and I […]

Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself. Rumi Every day, I tell my girlfriend I love her. She is an incredible woman whom I am blessed to […]

I am blind in one eye, but I do not rock an eye patch. And though I wish I had two functioning peepers, I do not forget how fortunate I am. A brain bleed in 2005 damaged some of my […]

“I don’t read the news anymore.” “So, you’re oblivious as to what I’m talking about? Have you been living under a rock?” “Yes.” I was at my sister’s house yesterday, celebrating my niece’s ninth birthday, and sipping gulping red wine […]

Because the traffic jams and crowded aisles and long checkout lines give me time to think, and if I don’t make a conscious decision about how to think and what to pay attention to, I’m going to be pissed and […]