Carnal Zen is my forum to explore all the ideas, contradictions, religions and credit card bills that pepper my life.
No one’s here and I fall into myself. This truth drives me
Driving home from a long weekend of condo repairs and tenant wrangling, this lyric from an Evanescence song hit me in the gut. HARD.
The truth that drives me, if I’m honest, is that it all rests on my head. If I don’t [...]
I’m back from my journey across the pond. I picked up many sayings and lots of local knowledge. Mostly, I was reminded that sometimes you have to travel really far to find yourself. My first words were “Ello Luv” with a British accent. I wasn’t super campy as an infant. [...]
Ok well maybe I’m not sorry at all. Maybe that’s just something people say even when they should not, when they have not accepted responsibility or feel bad for the feelings they hurt. Mostly they say it even when they would do it again. In the end it doesn’t really matter….if someone doesn’t really care. You have to [...]
It’s one thing to order a grande soy machiatto no whip at Starbucks but special ordering men has gotten a bit wierd. I’m testing the waters, trying things out and just exploring this new single world. Nothing serious, but today I had a breakfast date with a politico. Last week there was the musician and the photographer. Each one so different [...]
In golf, a mulligan is a retaken shot on the first tee box, usually due to a previously errant one. It is sometimes called a “Finnegan” when the second shot is worse than the first.
I like this…especially that the the names are so Gaelic. When I think of the Ireland my thoughts are of Guinness, [...]