Acting out - My Dissolute Life

Over-determined

Poor decision-making on my part.

I haven’t been writing much lately. I’ve been listening to too many podcasts. That has to STOP!

I find myself with some minutes to spare – a window between obligation A and obligation B. I have lots of work[…]

Today featured three micro-rejections. Nothing big. Well, that’s not quite true: once upon a time, all three would have qualified[…]

I was rejected today. Not by a woman, but in a completely non-sexual, comprehensive, totalizing – and damning – way.[…]

Lately, I’ve been sitting myself in bars, as I’ve written, and seeing what happens. Usually (I’ve probably done it five[…]

The other day, I wrote about some of my self-destructive impulses, about how, when lonely, I sometimes act (and often[…]

A loyal reader asked me recently about loneliness, and I tossed off a quick response: “… in general, I don’t[…]