{188} New Year Advent Day 5 (December 29)

by | Dec 29, 2016 | Life and all That

Intention: a thing intended; an aim or plan. I felt that determination comes before intention, because without the emotion of determination we won’t make the intellectual choice of intention. Today I spent time hammering out my plans, trying to make them...

{186} My stalker

by | Dec 27, 2016 | Life and all That

This guy, he’s not even subtle. I actually went on one date with this dude — we met on FSU campus back when I was in grad school and working at the Senator Pepper Archives, so about 2012 or so. It was one of those dates where the guy seems...

{181} Throwing history away

by | Dec 23, 2016 | Life and all That

It has been engraved on my soul to save household documents by parents whose deaths bequeathed to me their tax returns from the 1960s. I treasure those documents, because they contain my parents’ lives in very factual ways (income, taxes) and very sentimental...

{180}Writer vs. Storyteller

by | Dec 22, 2016 | Fiction, Life and all That

An interesting thought exchange with ClassicalSass about “why post/publish your writing?” led me back around to the idea of being a writer vs. being a storyteller. Yes, of course, there is critical overlap there. I’m not talking about hard...

{179} Grab’n’go office

by | Dec 21, 2016 | Life and all That

Even now, in a decent job that I’ve held steadily for several years, I “travel light” — these days, there is no guarantee that you’ll get time to pack your things before you’re pitched out the door. It’s no different in a...

{177} Life in a storage unit

by | Dec 19, 2016 | Life and all That

I am surrounded by boxes of memories, furniture, and china that have never really belonged to me. I am the caretaker for what I salvaged from my inheritance, and it feels a lot like living inside of a storage unit. As I embark on a major re-organization of my studio...