Teaser for my new chapbook, now available on Amazon.com. E-book available on 6/18. As a born writer, your life purpose is to publish a book. The road to publishing is never easy. You get used to publishers telling you no, doors slammed in your face, and dealing with the subsequent…

Everywhere I go, I have a habit of wandering around and seeking out all the street art in the area. I’ll find it, photograph it, and later I’ll blog about it. It’s something I’ve always done and I enjoy it. I find that a city’s artwork tells the most personal…

When stimulants become a detriment, and the art of surrender. Drugs, alcohol, caffeine, food, and sex — what do they have in common? Other than the fact that they are all really fun to do, within that fun lies the very problem. …

Just wait until you hear about getting Draked. Millennials are a curious generation — they have changed the way people drink wine, buy diamonds, and many believe they are witches. Aside from the obvious “all millenials are annoying” shtick that so many Gen X’rs believe, millennials are shaping the world…

You don’t have to stay in something that is not getting better Upon writing my memoir today I found myself faced with a task I had been putting off for a very long time. In fact, I think I had been avoiding it altogether due to the pain it brought…

Sex is everywhere, it’s on television, on billboards, it can even be ordered up on an app and over to your house in no time flat. As a gay man, our relationship with sex is definitely a bit different culturally than most. I mean, for us a blowjob is basically…

And no, trying to find love on Tinder is not one of them. Do you remember the first time you had sex? Was it memorable at all or were you just trying to get the deed done so you weren’t the only virgin in school anymore? …

As Shirley Manson from the band Garbage once sang on the 2005 alt-rock album Bleed Like Me — “It’s our conviction, sex is not the enemy,” — at least that was so we thought. The sexual liberation and “free love” movements that flowered in the hippie generation of the 60’s…