It is no wonder that the start of a new school year coincides with the end of a productive writing period. Or in this case, a non-productive writing period. I guess I just had too much going on this summer; it has been a crazy few months. Too much death, too much negativity in my […]
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Hello, 2021
Now this is weird. I’m posting twice in the course of a week. Woo hoo! Of course, I’ve been on break for ten days, so it’s only natural that I’m rested and recharged (as much as I could rest and recharge after the shitshow of a year we just slogged through), and therefore writing a […]
Goodbye, 2020
So goodbye, 2020. It’s been, well, surreal. As I, like many of the other rough beasts out there, slouch towards our proverbial Bethlehems to be born, I started thinking about what possible good points, positive takeaways, we could all salvage from this dreadful dumpster fire of a year. And I came up with a few […]
A New Start
Fall and a new start and all that jazz. Another football season has ended, the school year is in full swing, and my writing has stretched and yawned and shrugged off its malaise. I’m welcoming it back like the blood coursing a limb that has gone to sleep. There may be pins and needles, but […]
Chaos and the Tumbling Brick Effect
I consider myself fairly savvy when it comes to technology. I update my laptop religiously, work on my iPad, iPhone, and iMac, make Chromebooks sing, and even, yes, navigate Microsoft Windows if I need to. I manage three websites and a Medium page. All without major mishap, well, most of the time. The one major […]
Gray Skies
February, ah February. How I love reveling in your monochromatic , sheet metal sameness day after twenty-eight days. If April is the cruelest month, then February is the grayest. Or so I thought. After two trips this winter, one south and one, believe it or not, north, I have come to the conclusion that upstate […]