You gotta land sooner or later

Consider for a moment the possibility that everywhere you go, you aren’t. This is not something that you can really wrap your mind around, especially if it is your mind that is bending your reality. And yet it happens to millions of us each day. It can creep up on you, or can hit you…

It’s like some weird last gasp of the dying ego. This is magnified by my own uncertainty about my state of mental well being. In my mind I have convinced myself that there is an expiration date approaching quickly, so I gotta jam my foot on the gas to get to relevance. It’s like a…

My little blog is the place I go to remove splinters. As I am learning about (and refusing) to be a person with a disability; I find myself struggling with the tiniest things. Tiny little splinters. My daily golfing buddy and I play almost every day. This morning when I arrived on the first tee,…

The other day was a good day. I sat out front and watched a rainstorm and pondered. It had been a while since I had pondered, so initially I was concerned that I had forgotten how; but the skill quickly returned. And part of pondering is imagining. For me, when I ponder, I ponder the…

Yes, that book that every English teacher on the planet makes you read in high school. I’m not sure what made me want to read it again but it kept popping into my consciousness, little sign posts; references to the book on the internet that just happen to catch my eye. When I was 17…

While the uninformed may think of an HOA as a Homeowners Association, in fact they are an artifact of the Peloponnesian wars between Athens and Greece in 431 B.C.E. The acronym actually stands for Heuretics (discovery) of Assholes. Anyone that has lived in a community governed my an HOA understands that you are living in…

Ever slam your finger in a drawer? Aside from this being a very painful thing to do, it leaves you with clear evidence of the injury. Oh, look…..you slammed your finger in a drawer! Jeez, that’s gotta hurt. But what if at that very same moment, when you slammed the drawer, a huge piece of…

Chicapee brought to my attention that in the past she has been asked to write down all the traumatic events in her life chronologically. She thought it might be a good head-start for me to start working on a similar project, and while my memory is shit right now, I thought I would rewind the…

One of the more interesting facets of what I am going through psychologically right now is completely unpredictable rage. I woke up with it, took it out on the golf course with me and ruined what otherwise might have been a perfectly good day. You see, I can get away with writing this shit here…

I thought this to be an extremely profound turn of phrase when my good friend Bob Latchaw said it. It was of course tongue and cheek, but underneath is the absolute current of truth. All we have is now. But what if everywhere you go, there you aren’t ? What if you find little pieces…