Bryan's Brain It does work, I promise...

One of the great revelations that I've been privy to in my short, odd life is that no one, and I do mean no one, really has any clue what they're doing. Each of us, every day, awakes and just... does stuff. Often, the particular stuff we do is dependent on the stuff that came before (life has a gathering quality); and when we do change our brand of stuff, for whatever reason, it is often born out of some encounter with some other form of stuff, somewhere in the past, that we found we enjoyed (or we think can make us rich). For most of my youth, I did not believe this true; and I don't think I was alone...

I visited my childhood today; someone chopped down my favorite tree. With time to kill and a nostalgic mind, my new Honda, earned through years of stress-filled office-born effort, ambled itself through busy city streets and beyond fondly remembered stop signs to come resting alongside the sidewalks of my old stomping grounds. Stepping from the car, a cup of Starbucks in hand, my mind suddenly remembering a report that is due for the early afternoon on Monday, I suddenly gaze up, on a set of windows, the very same windows that I looked out from nearly eighteen years prior and two feet shorter...

When the responsibilities and terrors of human life start to collapse around me (the news can have this effect on many unsuspecting souls), I find it an interesting and cathartic thought exercise to contemplate the most basic, unbiased, almost-alien perspective of each of the various troubles. When mountainous concerns are reduced in such a manner, they have a funny way of suddenly appearing trivial, almost silly or stupid. It gives a fleeting glimpse into the detached, third-person perspective that the world would offer unto extraterrestrial...

I have written a column for Littera Report about the New England Patriots AFC Championship win, entitled Is My Heart Beating? As always, I hope you enjoy, and I welcome any feedback you may have! -- I think I had a heart attack... As the field goal sailed right to send the Patriots into their fifth Super Bowl appearance in ten years, my chest began to tighten and throb, like an elephant was sitting on me. Granted, this may have been the result of my hurling myself onto the ground in ecstacy...

I have written a column for Littera Report about the New England Patriots first post-season win, entitled Tom Brady: Remember Me? As always, I hope you enjoy, and I welcome any feedback you may have! -- From all of New England, I would like to offer the following gesture of good-will to the magnificent people of Denver, whom have seen their team rise from the ashes of obscurity and thrust into the national spotlight with...

I have written a column for Littera Report about the New England Patriots start to the 2011 post-season, entitled Tebow Time In Belichick Land. As always, I hope you enjoy, and I welcome any feedback you may have! -- Bill Belichick is hungry... Not for food, of course; humans eat food. Bill, rather, is hungry for souls! And on Saturday, when Tim The Tebow Tebow and the Chosen Team come riding into Foxboro, you can be assured that Belichick will have his feast...

The year of 2011 is coming to a close, and as all people who adhere to this particular calendar, I like to spend a few moments reflecting on what has happened in the most recent collection of twelve months. It has been an eventful year, that much is certain, both personally and in the news, and there is much to consider. Around the world, the year has been thrilling. Dictators everywhere have fallen in massive uprisings or by natural causes, protests have broken out all across the world...

I wrote an article for the Littera Report about the need for more collegial, collaborative politicking in the United States, and less opposition derision, entitled The American Solution. As always I welcome any feedback that you may have and hope the article to be informative! -- Beginning with the Tea Party demonstrations that took root in 2009, and continuing with the Occupy protests of 2011 that began in New York and have spread...