by Henry Amsterdam | Sep 22, 2020 | All Categories, Blog
I come home after a long and shitty day at the office and am about to plunge down headfirst into the sofa, when I notice two glasses of bourbon on ice resting on the coffee table. ‘Sit down Henry, we need to talk.’ ‘Well, since you’ve made me my favorite drink, I’ll...
by Henry Amsterdam | Aug 5, 2020 | All Categories, Blog
Something I’ve noticed about myself: I still can’t stand being bored. It is just the worst feeling, having to tell yourself at every intermission of the day, for days on end: “The unexpected will happen.” It is true. Sometimes the unexpected will happen. But waiting...
by Henry Amsterdam | Jun 17, 2020 | All Categories, Blog
About a week ago, I received a letter from a fan. It said, “Henry, how did you know that you were supposed to be a writer?” That wasn’t the first time someone had asked me that question. In fact, it’s the second most common question people ask me – The most common...
by Henry Amsterdam | May 20, 2020 | All Categories, Blog
I wonder, do you ever find yourself just locked in a stare with a stranger? In my case, I don’t lock eyes with people as often as I do with animals, especially the seagulls which are abound in my city. But yesterday it happened to be with another person. A woman came...
by Henry Amsterdam | May 14, 2020 | All Categories, Blog
I started to write… about something I’ve noticed about myself: I can’t stand being bored. I mean, literally, boredom has become something entirely insufferable to me… I don’t know how and when this became the case. In school, I often loved to be bored. To draw in my...
