A new category, where I whine on for 500 words about something or other: We all make concessions to age. Whether you’re 30 and decide to give up Sonic the Hedgehog or you’re 50 and give up on 21 year olds, at some point as we creak along and the world around us continues to… Read More Rant500: Baby, It’s Cold Inside
I tried so hard my dear to show that you’re my every dream. Yet you’re afraid each thing I do is just some evil scheme A memory from your lonesome past keeps us so far apart Why can’t I free your doubtful mind and melt your cold cold heart — Hank Williams (1951) I am… Read More Lyrical: Cold, cold heart
Last fall … I’ve been at this for a few weeks now. I still don’t know where to start. I don’t know where to go. I’ve written 2,500 words and trashed them all. I’ve started and stopped and started and screamed and given up a dozen times. I’m struggling for perspective. I’m trying to be… Read More Her Way
The title of this post is the same as a 2002 novel by Tim O’Brien. I saw the book recommended in some list somewhere, the cover looked nice, it wasn’t huge like the epic I read before it, so I checked it out of my super-local library. (Yeah … list, cover, weight of book …… Read More July, July
My annual golf weekend with my brothers is officially in the record books. Officially: Most curse words on one hole. Most pathetic shots out of one sand trap. Most trees abused by mishit golf balls. Biggest slice on an impossibly high drive. Most 7s on one nine. Most 3-foot putts missed. Highest frustration level. Ever.… Read More Driving me nuts
Five hundred and sixty eight pages is, by any count, a lot of pages. That’s less of a book than a marriage vow. When you lift something of that size, when you show you’re willing to put in the effort that a relationship like that demands, you’re looking for a little something in return. It’s… Read More A mighty author at bat
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