Shaved my beard. Sign of Spring. No more cream cheese and pasta sauce and every other food imaginable. One less obstacle to getting food to my gullet. 

Listen

Do you ever listen to music? Not while you're driving, or making dinner, or reading the news, or exercising. Or writing. But just put something on and sit and listen. Or lay down. Or dance. Isn't that what people used to do? You know, focus on one thing? 

Put some music on. Grab a drink and slow things down. Listen.

I Bet It

Whenever I hear myself say "I doubt it", I hear my brother echo "I bet it". 

At some point in our young lives, that was his favorite retort. 

Like anyone who grew up pre-information age, I wonder how many of those disagreements may have been solved in seconds. Imagine not running to an assumed authority figure and instead bowing at the foot of the all-powerful internet.

I realize the argument is the point, not the answer. So you find the answer and you learn something, but you've lost the interplay.

I don't remember any of the answers. I remember arguing with my brother.