The old adage that when “man plans, God laughs” describes all too well the year 2024. It’s not that my well-scripted ’24 has been a particularly crappy year. I mean, seriously, remember 2020? We try to sweep it into the dark corners of our memory, treat it as ancient history, hope the gauziness of time… Read More Man plans
The young guy was, not being judgy about it, unremarkable. Late teens, maybe early 20s. Slim build. Oval glasses on a straight nose. Tight-cut hair under a camo hat. He was with an older lady. I assume it was his mom. I didn’t ask. Sometimes it’s better not to ask. The three of us, strangers,… Read More In the Woods, Still
Catching up … It’s election day in Georgia, or Election Day, I guess, which means it’s time to get out and vote. I missed early voting for this particular primary election (back off; I’m a busy man), which covers races for at least one state Supreme Court judge, some lesser judges, a county clerk here… Read More Naturally
A week or so before Christmas, I was browsing one of those trendy boutique shops that have popped up around our new downtown, desperately searching for a one-of-a-kind present for that special someone in my life. At that point, though, a week before Christmas, any kind of anywhere-close-to-unique token would have worked. For anyone on… Read More This Is It
Somewhere in the depths of the closet in my home office — among the baseballs and bobbleheads, the old books and outdated media guides, behind a bunch of untouched DVDs and about a thousand plastic cups from various sporting events — is a professional-grade, lightly used single lens reflex Nikon camera that I bought at… Read More Yello
9:09 p.m. Today was one of those days. When you ask someone, either out of some misplaced sense of social duty or just as an innocuous greeting, “How are you?” and they say, “It’s been one of those days,” you understand. You know, from experience, that the emphasis in that answer isn’t on the word… Read More Days of Our Lives
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