Author Archives: Jonathan Berger

You’re racing, he’s outpacing you easily. It isn’t fair. How is it this boy can beat your best without a care? Big brother’s nine years older; you know you can’t keep up. Still you’re there, just nipping at his heels, … Continue reading →

That. Just then. I was just about to write about Monroe when I saw that you had just written about Monroe and now if I go and write about Monroe it’ll seem like I’m just copying you. And, sure, maybe … Continue reading →

 If I keep believing that I meant to do that, that everything happens for a reason and I willed for these events to occur, then I will eventually see the good in what transpired. I will find how yesterday … Continue reading →

There are foods I don’t eat foods that freak me the fuck out without my ever having tasted them – or, having tasted them just enough to identify, I will just shut down and go tongually ballistic. Many of these … Continue reading →

I have been told there are lists of one hundred albums you should listen to one hundred books to reads one hundred works of art to experience. I have also seen some say that you must experience life rather than sticking … Continue reading →

Do you feel like your drowning stuck in the wet whirlpool lost in a constant circle of roiling emotion saturated slowly going low? Eventually you’ll have a decision to make. You can keep circling the drain, waiting for the inevitable … Continue reading →

The Mediterranean meal you have eaten does not agree with you. It attacks before dawn dividing your forces keeping your resources at bay well into the day. You are unprepared for what is to come but then again you are … Continue reading →

Weeknight diner, my phone my only friend the surrounding conversations my best entertainment. Behind me a high school table entertains themselves while an unimpressed waitress serves. The table’s energy vibrates, even as sound. They shout. They scheme. They talk about … Continue reading →

Well, you’ve done it now. You thought you could maintain your steady diet of successes indefinitely and you did until you didn’t. You didn’t now. You have been unable to continue the standard you expected to at this point. You … Continue reading →

You look at the boisterous boy and you see something simple an idiot of the id spouting about desires and wishes and negativity and such. There is more. He will speak ill drilling down to your worst pains with little … Continue reading →