...in the midst of... all this

You're driving to work and you see them. A bunch of people holding up signs in favor of the human being (if they can be truly described as such!) that you loathe the most on the entire earth.

Your blood boils.

You air out …

In Part I, I listed several things/places/events that felt magical to me in my life. In this article, I will discuss the most recent one, which I refer to as my "Socratic Sign."

Life, Rebooted

At 40 years old, I found myself without a job and without the …

This article is written based on a prompt I shared with a friend a couple weeks ago. You can my article from that "round-robin" prompt exercise here.

Since neither of my fedifriends have written their prompts yet, I'm actually borrowing the idea I gave Amin to write:

I'm going to …

A while back, a friend and I exchanged subjects for blog posts, which turned out to actually be a lot of fun.

A week ago, he, I, and another fedifriend got together to exchange blog post ideas/prompts, round-robin style.

The prompt I was given (with purposefully no context) was …

The working title of my previous post was, "A Grief Exchanged."

I couldn't quite make the title work in my head, so I abandoned it for "Adoption," which still works well.

I'm re-claiming that title for this post, because I can make more sense of where I was going with …

I wrote six months ago about the process of mourning and also my struggle to find another cat to adopt. There were a couple times that I had visited with a cat at a shelter and slowly warmed up to the possibility of adopting them, only to find that the …

I've just started a new exercise regimen (because, you know, it was either that or apply for asteroid status*).
I've tried to get into exercise for... well... many, many years. I've even spent a lot of money of gym memberships that went absolutely nowhere.

I will say quickly that I …

I sent a link to my blog to my best friend from high school, and he sent me back a screenshot of a poll I ran a month ago (dear God, where does the time go?) asking what I should post next on my blog.

The winning entry was for …

Just moments ago, I removed the cat bed that's been on the corner of my bed for the past nine months, and placed it in the closet.

Minutes before that, as I walked into my home, I called out to my cat one last time (which I had done nearly …

I was chilling out at the parking lot of In-N-Out after having lunch there (because the weather is pretty nice today), but decided to go to a local library to have a nice desk in front of me and do some reading/writing.

I asked the Oracle at Googlii (via …