I gotta get back into the swing of things here. This once-a-month posting stuff has to stop. Like right now. I’ve always said that this blog is my stream of consciousness. And when I don’t write, it feels like my
Not the Best…
Getting Old is Not for Sissies
I’m feeling pretty beat up these days. The combination of a body growing older and more feeble-y by virtue of time and the verbal calesthenics of the past few days since my mother’s death has left me tired, cranky, listless,
Breaking through the Writing Slump
It’s been several weeks since I’ve written anything – I find myself retrospective and quiet when I’m not traveling. It’s not that my brain quits working or anything. In fact, just the opposite. But the “working” is an internal one,
My Little Brother, Artie
Today would have been my little brother’s 58th birthday. That’s him on the right in the glasses, in a photo taken when he was 10 years old. Artie died of a self-administered drug overdose just 2 weeks before his 40th
Good-bye and Hello!
Happy New Year, everybody! Isn’t this just an amazingly hopeful time of year? Looking back on what the last year brought into our lives, we begin to see forward into a year that’s full of promise and hope. It’s so
The Awesome, the Not-So-Hot, and the Downright Freaky – What a Week on the Road Can Look Like
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly – or what I’d rather call the Awesome, the Not-So-Hot, and the Downright Freaky. It’s what this past week on the road looked like for me. Let’s start with that last bit, the
Nothing to it but to do it…
I’ve lived an entire lifetime in the last three weeks. Maybe even two lifetimes. I don't rightly know. I've lost track of the days; they all run together. Seems like every time I do something for the first time without