This one comes from earlier this year and is as yet unedited. Why? Because life has been rather busy as of late with various bumps, u-turns, and recalculation of paths. So why sweat a poem being sent out into the […]
Word Wednesday – strike on box
Ordinary things can some times inspire not-so-ordinary things. I came across this one from earlier this year while archiving poems from my handwritten journal into digital form. At some point in the last year or so, we inherited a whole […]
Don Rickles As Teacher
Somewhere along the way, I developed something of a borderline obsession with Don Rickles. Maybe I’m just a sucker for good timing and put-down comics, but to me, the man was (and is) one of the most naturally funny human […]
the script
Something that’s interesting about travel is that it inherently takes you out of your normal routines and imposes a degree of the unexpected, or as I prefer to call it, sheer chaos. Which is kinda fine by me in a […]
On The Move
Well gee golly shucks Todd, you sure got quiet all of sudden, did ya? I mean, you were out there shilling your new book and posting videos and everything else, and then… nada. What gives? Well, dear reader, lemme tell […]
Word Wednesday – music of any kind
I’d fully planned to record a new video for my YouTube channel and then found myself delaying and procrastinating and … whatever the worse thing is that comes after procrastinating. Quite simply, I didn’t want to do it. So I’m […]
Tools Bum Me Out
All right, so maybe that title isn’t completely accurate. To be honest, I’m fascinated by tools. Whether it’s shiny kitchen implements or digital design apps or imposing steel contraptions that look like they could rip an arm off if used […]
Word Wednesday – falling on the grenade
As of 2023, I’m pretty sure this poem is old enough to buy beer. This poem was written somewhere between 2000 and 2002 and appeared in my 2008 book Odd Bits Of Broken Things. What you’ll hear in this video […]
Limits of the Day
Everyone has limits. You just have to learn what your own limits are and deal with them accordingly. Nolan Ryan, baseball hall of famer This was not the best start to a day. The alarm went off and I didn’t […]
Sharing Saturday
Here’s the latest episode of my podcast, Free Range Idiocy, wherein me and Tim break down our favorite wrestlers from the 1980’s in a March Madness style bracket. This is the first region, with the others running through the 1990’s, […]