That photo cracks me up. Don’t know if it is staged or how it came about and I don’t care, it makes me smile. It is early evening Sunday night and I am listening to Leonard Cohen sing Hallelujah. Almost three years have passed since I wrote The Radical Honesty of a Life I Don’t Love and […]

Don’t ask me how I came up with that headline or why I keep hearing someone say never bring knife to a gun fight. It is just one of those days or weeks where I shake my head, roll my eyes and wonder if it is ok to start drinking at  6 AM or better […]

Seventh grade can be a really hard time. You are on the verge of puberty or maybe all the way in it. Doesn’t really matter because chances are you are surrounded by a ton of other kids who are. It is hard because hormones are raging and there are more than a few moments where […]

There is no punctuation in the headline because I don’t know if it is a question, statement or comment. Blame it upon this being one of those days where it feels like I am crawling through mud. Took a look a short while ago at some old pictures and cringed because when I see what […]

Parked the car at about 9:30 and sat in the dark thinking about the events of the very recent past and the evening. Twenty minutes earlier I was back on the basketball court, huffing and puffing my way back into shape, mind pushing muscles to remember how to do their jobs and will fighting physical […]

The times they aren’t a changin’ because they have already changed and it has become clear the crazy times have been unleashed again. “The difference between genius and stupidity is; genius has its limits.” ― Albert Einstein Moments like now are challenging because you feel like your heart has been ripped out of your chest, […]

Turned on iTunes and set it to shuffle and nearly fell of my seat when The Boys of Summer started playing because that song hits me now in a way I can’t properly express. Always has, but now it is particularly…apt. Read the lyrics, look at the moon and know that I am driving down […]