csix // chuck dwells here

she’s my pusher

Little kids make the world go ’round. It’s not adults, what with our complicated and wanton desires, but the wee ones who gently coax tribute from their parents and families and everyone else who thinks that no cuteness shall go unrewarded.

Which brings me to my niece. She turned 2 [...]

vestige

It’s hard to maintain friendships with those you barely see. There really aren’t very many people who you can lose touch with for long periods of time and then suddenly pick up right where you left off.

So when I get a call from people I haven’t seen in a while, I go. College friends, people [...]

separation

...I really, really did need a [...]

nighthawk

Why do I like being up late? Art.

I’ve always been an outspoken advocate of seeing the night through. You hang out, you eat, maybe get a head start on the hangover, and you talk about it. The ideas are fresh. The stories may be blurry, but they’re more focused than they will be the next [...]

mob mentality

As individual as I like to think I am, my successes are always tied to big groups. This pack aspect tends to magnify an achievement due to the shared sense of effort. “Look what we did together, and this is what Chuck did to help.”

In the makeshift marketing career I have, it’s been defined by [...]

rounds

i have a habit of making too many friends. so much so that it makes me occasionally seem like a fraud. really.

but these are all good people. i met them in school, through friends of friends, at sporting events, and they all have their stories, equally legitimate, which makes them all worth acknowledging, and which [...]

square one

sometimes you think you’re getting it all right. and then something happens to really put you in your place, or make you see it, and you have to take it from there. a new role. get used to it.

jury duty is one of those events. i got called in during april fools’ day, which had [...]

damage control

a lot of what i do is, technically, damage control, from making sure clients don’t freak out to keeping random birthday celebrants well-fed/drank to ensuring my family remembers exactly what happened on any given day that we’re together [even though all we really do is pay attention to the bigass baby].

it’s a lot of work, [...]

reasoning

so i finally stopped putting up facebook albums, aside from the occasional picture of food. the predictable comments began to get on my nerves after a while. and i was getting sick of the less social of my friends branding me as a “party guy,” when nothing can be further from the truth.

[do the math, [...]

elephant

it seemed convenient that the holiday no one wanted to talk about, least of all me, happened to occur on the same weekend of president’s day and lunar new year. i think it gave us all a certain degree of comfort, but still.

“good food and intellectual dialogue and a strenuous workout with minimal emotional distress.”

for [...]