I’m trying to break a cycle. It goes something like this: I think something is really cool. I start to get into the thing. I try to share the thing with other people, because it’s so damn cool. I get anxious because others aren’t into the thing as much as I am. I make another […]
On this day, I froze. Not quite to death, but it was a close thing. Walker’s second rugby game took place beneath a gray sky and amid wind gusts which repeatedly drove the snowfall horizontal. We bundled up in many a layer, and still my toes were numb for some twenty minutes after we got […]
A faithful accounting of my conversation with GG this evening: “I gotta let you know that he and I, we never fought. Not a once. And I tell everybody that I ain’t got nothin but good memories with my Jimmy. We had good times together. There was times we disagreed, and I know I done […]
Four hours, and then some. That’s how long it took for Walker to do his math, with me sitting beside him the whole time. It’s been a challenge getting Walker back on track after Papap’s heart attack. The stress of that event and the subsequent weeks of rapid decline coincided with a growth spurt which […]
I worry about money. This is nothing new. I worried about money when my wife and I were both working full time jobs. That’s how I saved up enough for a downpayment on a (foreclosure and needing work) house in less than two years. It’s how I managed to keep us afloat when we dropped […]
This is me trying to get back into the habit of writing every day. I wrote daily for several years. 1000 words. Every damn day. If I couldn’t get them out before work in the morning I would stay up late or write during dinner. I have to admit that a lot of that writing […]