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…
Category: Relationships
Hey There
Hey now. It’s been a while. Almost a year, in fact. Where the heck have I been? What have I been doing? Not writing creatively, that’s apparent. Let’s see…. The shortest answer is the most boring one: I’ve been working a lot more, focusing on generating as much income for myself as possible while it’s…
Escape From Facebook
It didn’t happen overnight. The thought had been fermenting in my mind for a long time. Seeds were planted during heated political arguments I’ve had with friends of mine over the past 10 years. Arguments that got out of control and became personal. I lost a good friend to one of them. We’re still connected…
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,…
Man or Mouse
Are you a Man? Or are you a Mouse? The year is 1986. I’m a senior in high school. At one point during this seminal year of my life, one of my friends — can’t remember who — caught the gambling bug and came up with the idea of having a poker night at his…
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…
Hello, 2020
And so a new decade is upon us. We call them decades and give them weight because someone decided that 10 years was the right amount of years to bunch together and deem significant. I think it began with Pythagoras. His followers started a cult that worshipped numbers, and believe it or not, they actually…
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…