Yesterday, Emilie Wapnick of Puttylike (https://puttylike.com) posed a question: How has embracing your multipotentiality made you a better human? For someone with as many interests and pursuits as I have (https://potluck.com/mark/), there were a lot of reasons why, starting in…
Category: Essays
Not the Hole Story
This guy’s walking along when he falls in a hole. It’s so deep he can’t get out. Sitting there in the hole, the guy remembers hearing a story about someone falling into a hole just like he did. In the…
Feel
Watch the video, or read below: A few years ago, I wrote about things I want. A couple of years before that, about talking about depression. Today, the two come together with me talking about things I feel, and it’s…
Want
I’m going to reference Buddha and the Spice Girls, the Bible and Jerry Maguire, the Serenity Prayer and Tag Team. Because that’s just how I roll. People want things. It can’t be helped. In the space between the wanting and…
Mad Libs with A Chorus Line and Cats
I like to see connections among things. Sometimes between stories. And somewhere between “there are only 7 basic stories in the world” and downright plagiarism, there lie things like this, where odd and interesting things make two stories a little…
Crying at Movies and Songs
Hi, my name is Mark, and I cry at movies. And songs. And other stuff, too. But especially movies. And songs. Probably like most people, I’d sometimes feel tears well up while watching a movie. Maybe a few would escape…
Talking About Depression
Reasons why not to talk about having depression: Embarrassment. Shame. People will make too big a deal of it. People will make too little a deal of it. People will be on eggshells, which would only decrease connection with others,…
Some Thoughts On Humility
A Facebook Friend posted: “I hate modesty, loathe mediocrity, despise humility. They are crutches, an invented virtue for those who have nothing to offer besides how little they have to offer.” I started to write a comment in response, but…
Songwriting for a 24-Hour Theatre Project
The Invitation In mid-March, my friend and colleague Kat Koppett asked me if I’d be involved in a pretty unique way in the 3rd Annual Capital Region / Berkshires 24-Hour Theatre Project, which premiered last night, Saturday, May 18, 2013.…
Mad Libs with 30 Rock and Gandhi
The other Mad Libs posts I just did this week — on Looper and The Terminator and on Frasier and Joey — reminded me about another set I did, practically on a dare. Netflix told my wife that she’d like…