You see, I didn’t need a coupon. I didn’t need to search 8 sites for a working code. I didn’t even need to sign up for a marketing text. I just happened to turn 55 Christmas night and that age, apparently, unlocks the magical ‘senior’ discount level.

When you first look at your life in finite terms, self-reflection races forward fast and furious. If you’re not vigilant, past actions and ‘lost’ days might swiftly turn into weeks of future regret. And that’s time we don’t have to lose

Here, red hues alight from the sun gleaming on iron oxide-enriched sandstone, not the Boulevard’s garish neon. The wind and sounds of the desert calm the soul compared to the stale, smoky stank of stagnant air and the incessant clamoring of a casino floor.

The team dispatched a human fire hydrant to chat with me. He introduced himself as one of President Clinton's (ahem) "speech writers." Then, with a nasal Jerry Lee Lewis voice, he asked me a series of questions - each with something just a bit 'off.'

8 years later I graduated from Rowan University a fully-grown … string bean. I’d managed to stretch a whopping 14” over the years while adding just 35 lbs.

Love Trumps Hate sign from the 2016 Democratic National Convention

Some favorite pics from concerts and festivals over the years.

A massive iceberg calves off of Hubbard Glacier in the Alaska / Yukon Pacific Northwest