It’s been my dream to somehow work a Beastie Boys reference into a blog title and I’m here today to tell y’all that dreams really do come true. Even if it’s here on the interwebs where everything is either fake, […]
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Just An Event
I’m a sucker for a good story, which is probably why I keep stumbling across this video and also relating the story myself. However, this time around, something else stuck out to me. Hearing Herbie Hancock tell that story never […]
The Friday Five – July 2, 2021
Needless to say, I’m still getting into the swing of living in a different place for the first time in almost seventeen years and doing it out of a suitcase. Not that it’s some kind of unbearable hardship (because it’s […]
Aaaaaaand We’re Back… Again
While I don’t want to turn my little enclave on the information super highway into some life hack blog, it seems that advice is something I’m ready to hand out lately. After all, about a week and a half ago […]
My Favorite Spot
Four more days in this house. I’m not necessarily trying to be nostalgic so much as trying to remember what day it is. Okay, so that’s a bit of shrugging off emotion as a joke, but it’s worked for 45 […]
Don’t Move
If you’ve been living in a place for over 15 years, past the age of 40, and have this sudden idea of moving, allow me to give you a small bit of advice. Don’t. Make peace with your life as […]
Late Spring Word Wednesday
One day after my triumphant return to blogging and I almost missed posting something. Okay, so maybe it’s not so much triumphant as wobbling back out onto rollerskates after a couple decades, but indulge for a bit if you would. […]
So Where Ya Been?
I honestly didn’t intend to stop writing the blog for just over three months. One week off turned into two turned into three and the next thing you know, I was working the ticket booth at a circus in Borneo […]
Rules Of Engagement
I’ve said it many times before and I’ll probably say it many times more: one of the perks of aging is giving less of a damn each year about what other people might think. The reason I’ve said it is […]
A Connected Word Wednesday
After a few weeks of new poems, I decided to reach back a couple years and dust one off. i stand connected too far from a future to see the right answers and too close to a past that contains […]