Today would have been my brother’s 44th birthday. Yes indeed, he was a St. Patrick’s baby in 1979. He embodied the luck of the Irish, which is always said in jest as a kind of backhanded compliment. He’d have kept up with any local legend on the Emerald Isle and drank with them under any…

The recent bank closures that have shocked the markets and given everyone harrowing reminders of the 2008(ish) global crash have me hoping for a full crash. I want the institutions to feel what we feel when failures occur, but I’m afraid it won’t happen. There is already a discussion of shoring up the entire banking…

Within a week, we’ll be moved back to the country and I find myself in a strange limbo. It is a holding pattern between this small chapter of life and everything that comes after. There is a great anticipation hanging over every thought and feeling, and it makes me hopeful as I look forward. But…

There are days as a writer where the words you’re searching for are nowhere to be found inside or out. You simply cannot force what you’re looking for out from the shadowy corners of your mind. Trying to do so pushes it all further into the recesses, completely out of reach. Then the reality of…

I did the anti-hipster thing and got COVID-19 when it wasn’t cool any more. It hasn’t been too bad, but I’m aware how lucky I am that it didn’t go another way. That time in our history almost feels like it didn’t happen, but I know it did. Like many times in the past, I…

Get fucked. I thought we talked about this. On the first day of March it was in the high 50s and sunny. Two days later we got hit by a snowstorm and since it was borderline temperature wise, the snow was super heavy, wet, and actively melting. It’s a sloppy mess that will take a…

I’ve moved my modest little writing table near a window where I can see the traffic pass by for the remainder of our stay in this small city. Every day as I sit and contemplate more serious matters, I see people in little snapshots of their lives and wonder what concerns them. Not that I…

Moved a car load full of stuff to our country place and now it’s down to the nitty gritty as far as what is left to move. We have enough in the home to be able to live here but not much more. We will be moving ourselves within the next couple of weeks and…

I have spent a little over 4 months living with a person who was experiencing a very active mental health decline and it reminds me to attend to my own needs. Only now, after it is no longer a daily issue to be wrestled with, can I even begin to unpack what I witnessed. This…

My brain decided that I’d be waking up this morning at around 4:00 so I’ve put the time to good use working on some things. I’ve also spent some of the time reflecting on how miraculous it is I didn’t ever go to jail or get killed when I drank. I seriously have no idea…