: About Me

I am New York born and bred, and I have two young sons who live with me in Queens, NYC. My boys are my world as my wife and I make our way through a divorce.

I have a variety of interests in a variety of areas, and most of my life has been spent trying to figure out how to focus on one or some of these. Whenever I try, though, I inevitably find myself drawn to some other, forgotten interest. However, there is a core group of interests that have remained near to my heart over the years, and I believe that only now, in my mid-thirties, am I beginning to find my niche.

My primary interests are philosophy, human psychology, music, film, baseball, writing, and science. While I delve into other things quite often, I always find myself coming back to these seven.

My education reflects my scattered mind. I have a BA in psychology and music and an MBA. I currently work in academia, assisting with research in general internal medicine at a major university.

My passion is ...

trying to better understand the world around me.

I know too much about ...

nothing. You can never know too much.

My parents always told me ...

I was messy.

My childhood ambition ...

garbage man. Yes, really. I loved the idea of taking all this unwanted stuff and mashing it together in a big truck.

Why I write ...

to organize my thoughts and share them with the world.

My first job ...

flipping burgers at Roy Rogers.

My inspiration ...

can be found almost anywhere in the twists and turns of life.

Relationships & Family > Family Life Learning to take responsibility for your own behavior

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Life occasionally presents us with difficult, seemingly impossible choices. We are forced by circumstance to choose between one form of agony and another, to be burned by fire or be frozen by cold. How do we make these decisions, and how responsible are we for their outcomes? Imagine that you are faced with a Sophie's Choice situation. You have two children, Child A and Child B, and you must decide which of them will live and which of them will die. What criteria do you use to make your decision? Do you simply flip a coin, and if so, does that absolve you of any responsibility for the choi...

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