Category: writing
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Nicotine and backgammon
Nostalgia is a funny phenomenon… I moved around a lot as a kid. Three years in a place was an average. But I was born in Glendale. My aunt and my grandmother lived there too. My aunt moved around some, but she ended up back in Glendale. I spent many…
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Breathing.
Surrounded by work, by noise, by the need to be ever-available, it’s easy to forget to just breathe. To be in the moment. I’m on a Greek island in October. This is my view every morning when I wake up. And I am breathing. Like, deep breath, full soul, filling…
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Touching history
I love studying history. I love touching something that meant so much to someone nice upon a time. It’s such a beautiful thing to be connected to the past. Even if it’s a past with darkness, as so much of history is. It makes me feel both less alone and…
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Prophetic multitudes
I was a weird kid. I was a soul searcher. From a young age, I wanted to understand the nature of god (little g). I wanted to understand who was supposed to be out there listening. And why people where talking to a bunch of different entities they couldn’t see.…
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Depth perception. Or, too fat for the shower.
Well hello there. It’s been awhile. You see, I’m having some trouble putting myself out into cyberspace these days. Even on social media I rarely say much of consequence. But that’s bothering me some. I tell other people to be brave, to speak out, reach out… but I don’t. I…
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Away and home again.
Home is a wonderful place to be. I love opening the front door after a long trip. I love breathing in the sanctuary that is uniquely ours. That’s not to say we didn’t enjoy being away. We did, very much so. Las Vegas was hot. But it was a welcome…
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Who would you be?
What do your memories mean to you? How much a part are they of your fundamental personality? If you had amnesia tomorrow, if you didn’t remember the experiences and people in your life… would you be you? Or could you be anyone you decided to be from that point forward?…
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The good things, too.
I wrote a blog on my author site about depression and anxiety. If you want to, you can read about that here. It’s an honest depiction of what it’s like living on that particular merry-go-round. Today, we’ve heard about the second celebrity suicide in a week. It’s awful, and sad.…
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Friends, Death, and Bawdy Jokes
This is going to ramble a bit. Bear with me. The news I received news today that an old friend of mine passed away suddenly from a short illness. I was in shock at first, and then Nic held me as the tears came. I hadn’t seen this friend in…
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