Daniel Moran

Daniel is a freelance writer and editor, entrepreneur and an avid traveler, adventurer and eater. He lives a nomadic life, constantly on the move. He is currently in Bangkok and deciding where his next destination will be. You can also find more of Daniel's work on his Medium profile: https://medium.com/@jmdmoran

I’m 38 and I love my parents and I also resent them, and I’ve spent most of my adult life trying to decide which feeling is the real one — and last month I finally accepted that they’re both real, they’ve always both been real, and the exhausting part of being their son is only performing the half they can handle.

Posted 04 May 2026, by

Daniel Moran

I had a thought, last month, while I was washing a single coffee cup at my kitchen sink in Bangkok. It wasn't profound. It wasn't preceded by a therapy breakthrough or a long meditation. It just arrived, the way the real thoughts do, between the rinse and the drying ...Read More

Men who pick up their father’s bad habits as they age may not be failing to become their own person, they’re discovering that decades of swearing they would be different didn’t quite undo the small daily patterns absorbed before they could speak, and the gestures, the silences, the specific way of sighing when they sit down were rarely going to be willed away, often met honestly, which most of them are quietly doing for the first time in their sixties

Posted 04 May 2026, by

Daniel Moran

I was sitting down on a low wooden bench at the dog park in Bangkok, the kind of bench that's slightly too low for a man my height, and I made a noise. It wasn't a sentence. It wasn't even a word. It was a specific, two-part exhalation—a downward ...Read More