Today’s word of the day from dictionary.com: It’s a word I aspire to on a daily basis. It is the basis of this entire space. It’s a good one.

I want to write for a living. I want to obsess over words and their proper usage. This has no particular direction, I’m happy to write about almost anything. What I am not sure of is how to make money at this without also selling something of who I am. Ads make me scowl and…

When I was turning one year old, I was spending the time in the hospital with an infection in my left hip joint. This infection had become so serious that it required surgical intervention to remove from the affected areas. Surgery in 1983 was not what it is today. Because of this fact, I received…

I have taken to using a clean room as an analogy for the mind. If you can make a room free from clutter, it can be used to best effect for it’s true purpose. Just as one might clean a physical room, one can clean the mind. In both cases, it allows the space to…

Yesterday was a full-on creative push and today I feel much less of that energy. I am aiming for a sustainable level of this but am more inclined to peaks and valleys. Getting to this space to say how today is going might be all of the creative energy I focus today. Practical projects were…

Take away the teeth and claws.Make the thing defenseless.All the primal remnants discarded.Now you’ll have an acceptable animal.Docile, obedient, playing at social.Baser instincts may be suppressed but are never gone.The lizard brain only demands survival and will do so by any means.No matter how much costumed posturing we do, we are all still just beasts,…

Scrolling through the news this morning I came across an article outlining a new package of legislation regarding climate change. As I began to wade through the morass of details about the potential bill I could feel my eyes glazing over and my attention being sapped by anything and everything else. The feeling that took…

We are making headlines through our dedication to setting the clock back 50 years. There’s a case of a 10 year old child from Ohio coming to Indiana to get an abortion because she was raped. Let’s just get this part out of the way now: If this isn’t an exception to the rule then…

There may be more than one nice day this week… More opportunities to get out and do some work around the house. I have officially become old because I look forward to it. Won’t be long before I pick up some New Balance shoes, white tube socks, and jean shorts. I’m on my way to…

Up at a reasonable hour today and got quite a few things done. For the first time in a minute, I feel as though I accomplished something today. It is all just stuff around the yard/home but it provides for a better environment so it’s a nice series of small victories. Today was an unseasonably…