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 […]
Tag: books
The Friday Five | December 18, 2020
In this semi-regular post, I talk about some things that I enjoyed, was intrigued by, or am thankful for this past week. One Yeager: An Autobiography by General Chuck Yeager and Leo Janos … I wrote about my love for […]
The Right Time
Chuck Yeager is the reason I fell in love with reading biographies. I read my paperback copy of his autobiography, Yeager, so many times that it literally fell apart some time around high school. In spite of that, I kept […]
The Value Of Being Surprised
I unexpectedly came to the end of Dune last night. How does one finish a book “unexpectedly” you might ask? After all, there’s only so many pages – it should be easy to see coming. What I hadn’t realized is […]
The Friday Five | September 18, 2020
The Friday Five is a semi-regular feature here on the blog where I post about some things from the past week that I’ve enjoyed reading, listening to, watching, or am just thankful for. Cory Wong – “Sidestep” (live) I’m probably […]
The Right Second (or Third) Book
Normally, I have two books going at any given time: the main book I’m reading and a book of poetry. The system works pretty good because if the main book gets a little too heavy or if a change-up is […]
Prep Work
I’ve often joked that the reason I gave up on reading Moby Dick was that I ran out of time. In the unabridged version on my shelf, it takes 100 pages before we get to the boat and then another […]
The Friday Five: Just A Closer Walk
The Friday Five is a collection of things I’ve enjoyed, am thankful for, been inspired by, or found interesting from the previous week and want to share. 1. Just A Closer Walk With Thee This video was recorded at the […]
The Friday Five | May 29, 2020
I’m not calling this week’s post a celebration, because it’s more of a coping mechanism at this point. The United States has surpassed 100,000 deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic, another brutal death for the crime of being black, protestors attacked, […]
The Friday Five | May 15, 2020
This is a collection of things that I’ve been enjoying, doing, or thinking about through the week. Since it’s been a little while since my last gratitude post, I thought this would be an opportune time to share some things […]