The more time on your hands, the better.
The other day, a friend who chooses to make art rather than work a conventional job presented his latest creation, a sculpture built from found objects coupled with a backstory…
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How to make $1900 doing absolutely nothing!
While it seems like a contradiction in terms, it takes a lot of hard work to achieve nothingness, as any zen master will attest. But now it’s not only wise…
Wear-a-mask Wednesday: Go the “Full Sonoma”
Most residents of planet earth dealing with the threat of Covid-19 are either sheltering in place, masking up, or living with risk. In Sonoma County, a place that one SuperOptimist…
Forgetting more than usual? You may be a genius!
Recently, a friend of the SuperOptimist expressed concern that their memory was heading south. “I just finished this great book about New York last week. It’s called…uh…oh, my god, what’s…
How to become the next Charli D’Amelio!
What do you mean, you don’t know who Charli D’Amelio is? She’s only the most popular personality on TikTok, with 76 million followers and counting! (The number changes constantly, there’s…
SuperOptimist Celebrity of the Moment: Mickey Rourke.
There’s nothing like a good old-fashioned Hollywood mud-sling to get the juices flowing, as the latest Mickey Rourke-Robert De Niro dust-up proves. Rourke demonstrates his SuperOptimist bonafides by thinking he’s…
Tolerance training in the age of zero tolerance.
A Muslim, a Catholic, an African American, a Jewish person, a Hispanic, a Wasp, a native American, a lesbian, an old woman, a gender-neutral person, a Chinese communist, a Russian…
Question authority. And everybody else too.
In the past six months, we’ve gone from world leaders saying there was no major threat from Wuhan to a rip-roaring pandemic. We’ve seen medical experts say that only the…
Today’s your lucky day! (Tomorrow too.)
We could all use more luck in our lives, especially given the extreme events of the moment. So how do you persuade fortune to shine it’s toothy grin upon you…
There is no “Plan B.”
Frequently, you’ll hear someone say: “And if that doesn’t work — we’ll proceed to Plan B.” But isn’t this simply preparing for failure? Fear that Plan A won’t work. Fear…