The Wrong Fit
It is 2009. I am 25 years old and begrudgingly working at a nonprofit in midtown Manhattan full of unhappy people during the throes of the financial c...
Boehmcke's Human Condition
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Bringing the world together, while tearing himself apart.Boehmcke's Human Condition is a weekly essay from writer and multimedia artist Richard Boehmcke. It's an examination of his own life, an exploration of what it is to be a man, and a quest for the many things that connect us all."This podcast is changing everything" is something somebody might one day say. For now, we will just have to wait and see.
Looking for the Secret To Marriage
Try. It’s a very simple word. Three letters. One syllable. Small, but powerful. It’s the beginning of things. The decision. The first step. The commit...
The Skin of a Redwood
I spent a lot of time this weekend around the redwood trees in Northern California. I had visited them once when I was a kid but my tiny brain hadn’t ...
Do I Really Want to Be Here?
It’s January of 2006. I have just graduated from college and I am sitting in the courtyard of a Hostel in Melbourne, Australia.The summer weather is p...
3 Lessons From Hiking the Grand Tetons
By the time I got to Wyoming I was feeling a little overwhelmed.Whenever I get that feeling, I itch for a grand adventure, something big and different...
The Stories We tell Ourselves
I had a pretty significant realization recently while sitting in the dentist’s chair. It is not a place I usually experience great moments of clarity....
Missing Where You're From
Do you miss it?That is the question my fiancé and I kept asking each other about New York. We never raised it out of the blue. It was usually prompted...
Learning to Drink: The College Years
By the time I got to college, I knew almost nothing about alcohol or how we people socialized around it. The first time my roommates said they were go...
Why Are Men So Angry?
The comedian Kumail Nanjiani was on Ellen recently talking about the plot of his latest movie “Stuber.” In discussing the dynamic between the two main...
What Does a Birthday Mean?
I am writing this on my birthday.As of today, I am now officially in my late 30s. Which, as we all know… means absolutely nothing. Sure there are the ...