It’s fall, my favorite time of year. There’s a nip in the air, and it’s finally jacket weather. Time to break out my favorite clothes, my best shoes, and yes, my favorite cologne. The good shit. The scents I love most that are too heavy for hot weather, but totally crush it in the cool…
Category: Love
10 Things I Think I Think on August 4, 2024
It’s August, the peak of my Hot Boy Summer. Last summer, I went on an Italian adventure that was accompanied by a Fool’s errand. This hot and sticky summer has been all about a return to Self and a restoration of clarity and balance in my life. Virgos need both to be happy, so this…
Field Notes From the Dating Underground
Subject is back in the dating field for the first time since April 2020, following the deterioration and somewhat comical implosion of a three and a half-year relationship, which finally ended in the fall of 2023 after several dead cat bounces. At Subject’s request, Researcher is recording Subject’s observations, reflections, and experiences as he re-enters…
10 Things I Think I Think On April 27, 2024
Spring is upon us, and oh, how the mind flourishes this time of year, with all those treebuds opening, flowers blooming, people out and about with fewer clothes on, and longer, warmer days lighting our way to another endless summer! Moods are brighter, my friends! Smiles abound. A long, shitty winter of my discontent is…
10 Things I Think I Think
Man, are some of these posts dense or what? Long-winded. Starchy. Reading them is like trying to chase a pound of spaghetti with a loaf of garlic bread and a potato. Maybe I should start using subheadings like I do with my legal briefs. Anyhoo, I’d like to add a little levity and brevity to…
The Unreliable Narrator
Every reader begins a story in good faith, suspending disbelief and accepting the narrator’s portrayal of events at face value. The reader’s understanding is limited to what the narrator chooses to disclose and the narrator’s subjective feelings about the story’s characters and their encounters. There’s no reason for the reader to doubt what the narrator…
I’m With Cupid
Ah yes, it’s that time of year again. Valentine’s Day! In thinking about my first single Valentine’s Day in four years, a sixteen-year old (!) post from my old blog, which I’ve reposted below, immediately came to mind. I wrote it in 2008 when I was 39 years old, single, frustrated, and a year away…
A Simple Prop to Occupy My Time
There’s an R.E.M. song called The One I Love that I never liked because it’s simple, repetitive, and boring. It starts off as a love song, a dedication to a former lover: This one goes out to the one I loveThis one goes out to the one I’ve left behind But in the next line…
Spock & Kirk
How do we make decisions in life? The big ones. The ones that tell us which direction to go when we hit a crossroads. The ones that impact us for years afterwards. How do we live with those decisions and deal with the consequences if they don’t work out right away, or if they don’t…
Love in the Time of Covid, The Sequel
It’s about time I get to writing about this. The Big Meeting. The Close Encounter. The COVID Interlude. How did it go? Was there a Love Connection? “Will there be a second date?” as MAGA-ass Chuck Woolery would ask before going to commercial and coming back in Two and Two? Read on. So…. let’s start…