Thinking of what to post this morning, I started to wonder what was on my mind a decade ago. Back into the digital filing structure for the folder marker “2010” and there was a wealth of documents staring me down. This is always a terrifying moment. After digging through a few, this one seemed to …
Let me introduce you to a very important pile of clothing. Not because the clothes themselves are special (although I am partial to that Lettuce t-shirt), but what they represent. I leave a similar pile of clothes in my bathroom almost every night before going to bed. Work out clothes on the top, and what …
Was tipped to a new poet that I’m looking forward to reading a whole lot more from, Nicole Sealey (@Nic_Sealey). Here’s something to think about… The First Person Who Will Live to Be One Hundred and Fifty Years Old Has Already Been Born [For Petra] Scientists say the average human life gets three months longer …
I know it’s hard to believe, but reading the news these days can be a bit of a downer. It seems the more information I take in, the more fatalistic I become. It’s an easy time to be jaded and disgusted. But then again, it’s also a good time to work at fending those off …
I’m a sucker for a good story. Always have been. I grew up listening to my Dad’s stories – some of them multiple times – and never getting tired of them. There was always this great undercurrent of comedy without the story itself being overly jokey. Stories can also be a powerful teaching tool. I …
My Dad used to say “don’t get old”. Usually, right after grunting his way out of a chair or extracting himself from the passenger seat of my too-low-to-the-ground car. It wasn’t said with a smile, but there was one in his voice. And I knew what he meant: getting around wasn’t the fun part of …
This is a recent one, written just over a week ago with scant few revisions. I’ve been thinking a lot about how to live in peace with others so far as it depends on me and what that actually looks like in the world. Is it silence? Is it exclusion? Or is it bearing witness? …
From all appearances, there is a winner and a loser to the 2020 Presidential vote, which is handy because that’s the sort of thing elections are for. States are going to continue counting and recounting as necessary and determined by individual laws, counts will be certified, everyone will send their representatives to Hogwarts, they’ll eat …
I decided to take a week off from blogging to think some things over. What with an election being tallied, a nation in the balance, and a pandemic continuing to ramp up and rage across the country… it seemed like the right thing to do. One of the things I was grappling with is what …
In a year that feels four times longer than usual, why did anyone expect that last week would move at anything but a glacial pace? I think a week in Vegas working the buffets and slot machines, smoking unfiltered camels and swilling down rotgut booze for five days straight would’ve been better for my health. …