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I have to say I’m a sucker for good irony. Ironic situations provide some of my favorite opportunities for humor. But the topic for today is funny on the front end while sporting an annoying hypocrisy on the backend. I am talking about the modern miracle of electronic communications from my kids’ schools. The ironyContinue reading “The Irony That Would Be Funny If It Didn’t Suck. See also: School Emails”

I suppose in the grand scheme of things it will be hard to remember this period. Life’s pageant is enormous and garish. Those that suffer it in reclusive enclaves do so in a way I cannot comprehend. Yet magnificent things are happening all around me. This year I have known success, devastation, victory, stress IContinue reading “The Fall of 2022”

The Schuylkill Expressway (“Surekill”) It’s 12:29 AM and I’m a bit groggy but simultaneously overstimulated from that Gorillaz concert. I’m blown away. What an amazing show. It was eyeball cocaine and sounded pretty great too! But that’s not the point of this post. In this I want to make the first of a series ofContinue reading “Car-Crazies Vol. 1: 12 Miles and 37 Minutes”

Welcome back! I was thinking today of my trait that requires I be challenged in my life. This is true in most arenas. When I say “I require” I am not saying that they are essential for any and all things, but stagnation and waste of human potential drive me crazy. I am pretty goodContinue reading “Something Challenging This Way Comes”

I should warn you that this post has some ups and downs but it is not light. Childhood memories of formative events tied to adult choices are like that. If that is not your jam or if you have synchronous trauma you may want to bail on this one. Were you prone to fantasy asContinue reading “I Could Stand To Revisit Such Things…”

I love the arrival of Autumn. We’re still seeing daytime temps at 80° but at night we drop to 59°. The leaves have begun to fall reminding us that we are now well into the back-half of this annual lap round the sun. With it I feel it brings a sense of wonder. For meContinue reading “Autumn, I’ll Fall for You Anytime.”

What is it that drives us to multiply the emotional sins of our past? Why do we amplify the trauma given us by our parents or ancestors? And why in the name of [pick your supreme being] do we allow these school shootings to continue? In the Guns & Jesus side of the argument theyContinue reading “Struggles, Part 2 – Guns & Jesus Edition”

While a deviation from my normal post content and themes, I accepted a challenge from a friend of mine that I write a positive post. Now, I refuse to concede that many of my posts end on anything but a positive note. She is right in that I need to try nailing positivity from startContinue reading “Tonight the Green Grass”

I am still getting used to running holidays solo. Granted, I thought I would be better at it by now but I set unreasonable standards for myself (we all know this). Either way I am managing. In reality the worst thing I have to worry about is burning the salcissia. It is nice to hearContinue reading “Labor Day – we are kinda full of s**t.”

I am fond of saying “I don’t know what I’m doing” on here. That is no accident. It’s not that I walk around a clueless buffoon in this life (well, not all the time anyway). But it is more to say that nothing I type in here is vetted beyond me. I am not aContinue reading “Extemporanea Regarding the Imperfect Soul”