Moderate Living

Hello, I'm Mike – I write every Tuesdays and Fridays

Month: October 2025

  • Self-Serving Politics

    Self-Serving Politics

    Those of you that watched my upstate New York drive video last week will remember my thoughts on this pivotal New York City mayoral election. And when I say it’s pivotal I’m not being hyperbolic. Everywhere and among everyone I know in the city, there’s this palpable sense that whatever is worth fighting for in…

  • Wishes…

    hope you guys are having a great Tuesday $12 million annual salary forever, payable in 52 weeks, direct deposit every Monday my family and I in perfect health and mid 20’s peak physique until we all die together after, maybe, 160 years. an indestructible naval, air, space, and internet repair/creative logistics UAV armed force with…

  • Michaelus Rex

    Michaelus Rex

    I just happened to reread a little part of Oedipus Rex this week and it spurred some questions in me. Do I know who I really am and where, or what circumstances, I came from? If the message of Sophocles is that you can’t do things or make decisions in a circumstantial vacuum, I have…

  • Snippets Of Life: All Things New York

    Snippets Of Life: All Things New York

  • Neither Rested Or Unproductive

    Neither Rested Or Unproductive

    Lazy days have taken on a different meaning for me as I’ve aged out of the labor force. As a result, I don’t feel anything if I have a lazy day simply because there is always work to be done. Whether or not it contributes to some professional goal or to avoid a difficulty that’s…

  • A Dangerous Level Of Intelligence: The Life And Times Of Michael Williams

    A Dangerous Level Of Intelligence: The Life And Times Of Michael Williams

    Almost two years ago, I decided to use some extra cash left-over for the month to purchase a long-arm grabby tool: Upon delivery, I thought that this was going to be a massive help in my life. And it was…in a halfway sort of manner. You see, I hated the fact that I had to…