the unloved
What is it like to be unfamiliar with the warm security of the love of a fellow human? I can’t say for sure, but I imagine it to be like...
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- Nov 28, 2019
- 1 min
make. it. work.
I’m thankful for my family. No really. I am. I know that sounds trite this time of year, but hear me out. I have seen one too many...
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- Nov 20, 2019
- 2 min
50 yr eval
I turned 50 about a month ago. I have yet to reach an age for which I’m not ready, where I feel like I haven’t accomplished enough for my...
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- Nov 17, 2019
- 7 min
mallem alibi
As I think and write tonight I am sitting on the 10th floor of Bay Lake Tower of the Contemporary Resort at Walt Disney World. Out the...
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- Sep 4, 2019
- 2 min
reflections from the belly of the whale
This could be titled Phlegm 3, but I got tired of the nasty connotations of that word. As I have sat at home today, thinking, praying,...
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- Sep 2, 2019
- 3 min
Still Phlegm
In my last entry, I referred to my present health and career crisis as a storm. I considered and then wrote about how it built up and...
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- Aug 31, 2019
- 4 min
phlegm
I am a pretty phlegmy, or phlegmatic, guy. I have been for some time. Funny how the two definitions of this word have collided in my...
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- Dec 31, 2018
- 2 min
Farewell 2018
I can’t say I’ll miss this year. Not because it has been bad – it hasn’t – but because I’m ready for a few changes. I want to be more...
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- Nov 19, 2018
- 3 min
The Washingtons (ep.9)
She hardly caught an ounce of sleep the night before her alarm awakened her for her appointment. Reagan had taken the kids to school so...
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- Oct 17, 2018
- 2 min
blessings ex nihilo (africa7)
The high point of my African experience was the people. I saw wild baboons on a hillside, vervet monkeys on roofs, and hyenas up close...
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- Sep 16, 2018
- 3 min
invisible (to the other guy)
How many people have either wondered if they were, or wished they were, or maybe wished they were not, invisible, at one point or...
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- Sep 8, 2018
- 2 min
crush
opening my eyes in the morning is often like the elevator doors opening after a solo ride from the top floor of the sears tower down to...
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- Aug 8, 2018
- 3 min
worthy
A line from an old song by Rush says “The mirror always lies to the beautiful and the wise.” I think there’s some truth to that. I’ve...
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- Jul 13, 2018
- 1 min
Lippy is a funny name.
I can’t tell you her age, because as far as I could tell she was ageless. But as I approach 50, I am gaining an appreciation for cheerful...
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- Jul 5, 2018
- 3 min
#apathy
If blessings are a joy, and curses tear down or build strength, depending on the receiver, apathy allows rot. Blessings are good for the...
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- Jul 4, 2018
- 2 min
#cursing
Voodoo Death is a real thing. I’m not saying this out of superstition either – at least not out of my own superstition. In this sense, a...
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- Jul 2, 2018
- 3 min
#cursed
If you’ve read some of my posts you would understand that I’ve struggled with depression through much of my life (inceptivus, caligo,...
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- Jun 30, 2018
- 3 min
#blessed
Sometimes I feel particularly blessed. As in much more so than I deserve. When I’m not being especially grateful, I often think this word...
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- Apr 22, 2018
- 3 min
finis
We run with so much vigor when we’re young, so eager to get to the next milestone. My grandmother used to remind me “Don’t wish your life...
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- Apr 2, 2018
- 1 min
missing it
she turns away again and he retreats she calls and he can’t talk she asks and he doesn’t hear he gestures but she doesn’t see he offers...
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