There has been talk lately here in my brother’s house about a potential new roommate moving in. Just to give everyone a lay of the land, currently (besides myself here in my writer’s garret) we have my brother Mark and his wife Jennifer, and their three sons Jacob (17), Matthew (15) and Joshua (8). There… Continue reading October 31, 2014

If I was Dorothy, and I spent all that time God-knows how many miles from home, traveling with three needy companions, fighting off flying monkeys, melting a witch, getting stuck in an hourglass (not to mention that whole opium thing) trying to get home just in time to see my dumb dog run away so… Continue reading October 27, 2014

I believe I posted this, in its entirety, a while back, but in honor of what a lot of my friends will be doing this next week (and what I won’t be for the first time in five or six years) I thought it was time to reprint a small excerpt from it. ……As the… Continue reading October 24, 2014

My friend Greg makes fun of me for taking all of those random “Who was I in a previous life?” “What 1970’s pop song am I?” “Can we guess your shoe size?” quizzes that populate Facebook. I don’t take it personally. He makes fun of everyone who takes them, and he does it with a… Continue reading October 21, 2014

There’s a lot of talk about the sanctity of the middle class and how it is disappearing these days. As someone who has benefited from its existence greatly, I’m surely in no mood to see it vanish, but the fact is that people have a short memory when it comes to the middle class’s place… Continue reading October 18, 2014

I’m switching things up and starting with the soundtrack, because today it is just that, a series of songs for today’s blog. So click here and start listening while you read. I’m pretty good at self sabotage. Anyone who knows what I’ve been doing this year is probably already aware of that, so that’s not… Continue reading October 15, 2014

I wanted to be a bridge. I know I’ve said that before, but I read somewhere that you should always start out with a hook to attract the attention of your audience, make them say “What?” and want to read more. So, yeah, i wanted to be a bridge. I have also, over the years,… Continue reading October 12, 2014

I sometimes think about taking the self help book off the market, if for no other reason than it’s pretty obvious I’m not in as contented a place as that book may suggest that I am, and that I need to study it a bit more and take to heart some of my own lessons.… Continue reading October 6, 2014

There’s something about the humidity in the fall that is different from the summertime, something about the way it feels and even smells a little. I’m sure part of it is purely psychological, knowing that instead of meaning endless days at the beach it instead implies starry nights around a fire pit, but it’s almost… Continue reading October 3, 2014