Oliver tipped the taxi driver and watched him drive off into the bright, sticky air of the Virginia afternoon. For once, Oliver didn’t mind the heat. After two weeks in Iceland, he was glad to be warm again. He lingered outside the automatic sliding doors for a moment, still wary of being followed, but none […]
Oliver Lucas fumbled with the tap, doing his best to keep the blood on his knuckles from smearing onto the spring loaded knob as he attempted to wash the battered fingers of his left hand. It was quite the challenge and he was starting to get angry. If only airlines had regular taps, he thought, […]
I wrote a bunch of books a few years ago. Five adventure novels. Three sci-fi novels. One not-quite-finished tale about the last weeks of a doomsday cult. And I’ve been mostly ignoring them for almost three years as I sorted through what it meant to change jobs, get a divorce, and join a new family. […]
The last two days have been super busy. I’m sitting here eating a cup of lime yogurt and running through my list of things to get done today before I start work, which will cary me through until nine pm. Jordan Peterson is a fascinating and frustrating individual. His core ideas of work hard, do […]
This is not the time to become lax about quarantine. I’ve attended a few small gatherings when essential (lining up for my shot, a few vaccinated people gathering for a memorial service), but otherwise I’m going to keep being safe and avoiding gatherings for a good while. I’m really excited about electric vehicles. If all […]
Today was Boychild’s birthday… and the seventh day since Rich’s death… and the first full day of James being home. In short: Madness. I started the day laying on the floor, casually installing a bidet on the upstairs toilet. Just a few cranks on the plastic pipe fittings, throw a T-joint into the line, and […]
Sometimes people fall out of sync, and that’s ok. Friendships, family, partnerships, all need to be built on trust and grace… trust that we will make it through the hard times together. Grace for the frustration we all feel during those bad days. This has been a really hard week. Allison has been supporting everyone […]
It’s been a helluva week. A man I cared about a lot died from ALS on Sunday morning. I wrote about it as best I could over on the family blog, but even as I share this story I know that I’m edging around parts of the experience. I’m not afraid of telling my part […]
I’ve been listening to the soundtrack to Westworld Season Three a good bit lately. Even if the season itself wasn’t quite as captivating as the first two, the music remained top notch. Listen to it, if only for the instrumental covers of Dissolved Girl and Wicked Games.