My biggest bully isn’t some jerk from high school or a boss I once told off. It’s the voice in my own head. The one that heckles me when I step on the scale, mocks me when I work out, and reminds me that my brand-new implants still feel like chewing gravel. That critic never shuts up. The punchline, though, is that if anyone else talked to me the way I talk to myself, I’d cut them out of my life in a heartbeat. But since it’s me, I let it slide. And that’s the trap; mistaking cruelty for honesty.

Money. The universal scam we all agreed to play along with. My parents hid from creditors like it was an Olympic sport, I grew up broke-but-hopeful, and now at 62 I still check my bank balance like I’m cutting the red wire on a bomb. Boomers are supposed to be the “richest generation,” but half of us are one medical bill away from raiding the Folgers can again.

So how the hell did we get here? Recessions, 18 percent mortgages, gurus screaming about lattes, and kids who think avocado toast started in 2015. I lay it all out in my latest piece: equal parts truth bomb and therapy session, with just enough sarcasm to keep you from crying into your 401k statement.

“Stay positive.” It sounds supportive, but most of the time it’s a muzzle. The wellness industry turned positive thinking into a cult that gaslights people into denying their pain, blaming themselves for bad luck, and buying endless courses and crystals to “fix” their mindset.

Here’s the hard truth: honesty is not negativity. Denial is not wellness. And the more we tell people to smile through their suffering, the worse we make things.

This piece calls out the toxic side of positivity, why it keeps you stuck, and what actually works instead.

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Meet the Jones Generation—America’s most overlooked powerhouse. We didn’t burn bras or build startups, but we bridged the gap between rotary phones and TikTok, raised two generations, and kept the lights on when nobody else could.

This article pulls no punches. It's a raw, honest look at the generation that got handed leftovers and turned them into legacy.

👉 Read The Art of Being a Jones and see how the middle child of American culture became the grown-up in the room.
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What happens when the Christian God and Odin sit down for a quiet chat at the edge of forever? No lightning bolts, no burning bushes, just two old gods swapping stories about love, pain, and why humans can’t stop chasing the wrong things. It’s sharp, funny, and maybe a little holy.

Read Two Chairs at the Edge of Forever.
Because sometimes the gods talk, and it’s not thunder … it’s truth.

Three men. One cold room. No throne, no scrolls, no sermon. Just Jesus, Marcus Aurelius, and Plato arguing quietly about the nature of God and what the hell we’re all doing here. No answers tied up in ribbons. Just pain, purpose, and a road that doesn’t care who you are—only whether you keep walking.

Read: The Dust Is Where the Lost Are.

“We once built pyramids. Now we build brands. We knew how to survive. Now we just know how to scroll.”

This isn’t your usual top ten list. These are the truths we keep pretending we don’t know, even as the world catches fire, our mental health collapses, and billionaires cosplay as gods. Read this one. Sit with it. Share it if you’ve still got hope for us.