Weirdo Poetry

Click here to listen to me read this essay One of the most transformative things I’ve ever done is to replace consuming self-help content and listening to productivity gurus with deeply reading poetry and listening to poets.

The first poem is two years old, and can be found in my book of illustrated essays and poetry comics, “How to Create a Life You Love: No Magical Thinking Required.”

Today I have five end-of-summer-themed haiku comics for your consideration.

It is a truth universally acknowledged that everyone hates being sold to.

One sultry August evening many years ago, I was in the embrace of my hammock, sheltered in the shade, listening to Miles Davis.

A poem hastily written Satan Sold Out to Private Equity Spoke to my demon ready to capitulate, offered up my soul.

Do you ever have the creeping sensation that our use of technology has gone beyond the simple relationship between humans and tools?

You’re broken.

I accidentally chronicled my spiritual journey through haiku comics Before I decided the church I had been born into wasn’t true, I came to understand that it wasn’t good.

Marie Curie, my daughter, and the radioactive ripple of genius Mortars and mustard gas rain down all along the western front between Germany and France.

Listen like a therapist, research like a tabloid investigator, and imagine like a novelist The last shades of a perfect Oregon coast summer sunset still hovered near the horizon.

Am I resilient, or do I just know when it’s time to go outside?

Your business needs to reach people in the real world The robots are drowning us all in a tsunami of digital marketing and advertising.

Children love the night sky When my children were younger, they would often point to the night sky and ask me about a star or light.

The thing I’m finally willing to embrace in my life & business Every online platform will eventually betray you.