Anxiety Activator #8: The Behavior of my Fellow Gym Patrons During the Olympics

  (This is how the pool at my gym has looked since the Olympics started airing.)  Normally, after three to four seconds on the elliptical machine, I am gasping for breath like a freshly caught trout with a Marlboro red addiction as the Whitney Huston-style sweat tsunami pouring down my flushed Irish face gives off the [...]

Anxiety Alleviator #3: Playing the Cowbell

This was me recently after crashing a party and hopping on stage with the band. I don’t know how I ended up with a drumstick in my right hand and a fifth plastic cup of red wine in my left, but I do know that I rocked that cowbell like I rocked that party. After [...]