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…
Category: Love
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…
Love in the Time of Covid
“Love, exciting and neeewwwww . . . Come aboard, we’re expecting yooouuuu! Love, life’s sweetest reward . . . Let it flow, it floats back to yooouuu!” Ahhh, love. We all love love, don’t we? Gotta have it. Can’t live without it. Love really is life’s sweetest reward. If modern dating apps are any guide,…
Until Death Do Us Conditionally Part
I picked up M. at aftercare the other night and ran into the father of one of M.’s aftercare friends — someone I’d gotten to know a bit over the past year through our daughters’ playdates and birthday parties. A year ago, I was still in the midst of finalizing my divorce and adjusting to…
I’m Back
After an almost 10 year blogging hiatus, with a great deal of joyous/heart-breaking/incredible/incredibly shitty life experience in between that will serve as content for this renewed self-absorbed excursion of mine, I’m back to blogging. Why? Why bother? Why now? A lot of reasons, but the biggest one is that I need to write like some…