Published books

The Keepinnit Reels 2: Acoustic Boogaloo cranks the nostalgia down to unplugged mode — same attitude, fewer safety rails. It’s a mixtape of analog‑era essays tuned for maximum snark, minimum polish, and just enough warmth to keep you from thinking the author needs an intervention.

Everyone remembers their first time — with a classic movie, that is. The First Time I Ever Watched… revisits those iconic cinematic rites of passage: the horse head, Rosebud, and all the scenes you pretended to understand long before you actually did. Sharp, funny, and painfully honest, it’s a tour through the films that turned casual viewers into lifelong obsessives.

Life doesn’t come with instructions, but it does come with a lot of “well, that could’ve gone better” moments. The First Time I Ever… revisits the big rites of passage — driving, dating, home‑buying — with humor, hindsight, and just enough snark to make the lessons go down easy. It’s a highlight reel of every major milestone you fumbled through and somehow survived.

A Wise Geek’s Guide to Everything is a tour through the everyday mysteries we all pretend to understand — from odd sayings to cultural quirks to the trivia you didn’t know you needed. These bite‑sized essays blend humor, insight, and a touch of nostalgia, turning ordinary questions into delightful discoveries. It’s the handbook for anyone who still enjoys learning weird little things just because.

Avoiding the Disaster Date is Michael Pollick’s wickedly insightful tour through the minefield known as modern romance. In this collection of sharp, funny, and occasionally too‑real essays, Pollick dissects the walking red flags, conversational catastrophes, emotional acrobats, and well‑meaning weirdos who turn dating into a full‑contact sport. With warmth, wit, and a talent for naming the chaos exactly as it is, he offers a survival guide for anyone who’s ever sat across a table and thought, “Oh no… this is going in a book.”

Tales From The Coffee Pot is the book your mug would write if it finally got fed up with your life choices and decided to spill everything. It’s a warm, caffeinated anthology of micro‑myths, domestic misadventures, and the kind of spiritual revelations that only happen when you’re one sip away from either enlightenment or heartburn.
Inside this collection, you’ll meet jittery prophets, overworked drip machines, childhood candies that lied to you, and the occasional detective who brews coffee like a cry for help. Every essay is a postcard from the border between “before coffee” and “after coffee,” where the air is thick with steam, nostalgia, and questionable decisions.…

A compilation of author and humorist Michael Pollick's essays, microshort stories and poetry.