Summer’s Almost Gone(rejoice)

I’m not a summer person. I enjoy moments of it; individual afternoons, or perhaps a warm Saturday afternoon walk with my wife in town talking about her job. Or grabbing tomatoes and jalapenos from the farmer’s stand for fresh salsa. Farmer’s stands, that’s one of the few reasons I enjoy summer. Nothing better that fresh […]

Cleaning Is Meditation

Ever since I was little cleaning has been a form of meditation for me. Organizing, putting away, alphabetizing, sweeping, dusting, rearranging, etc…I find the act of cleaning to be relaxing, weirdly enough. As a kid it was my bedroom. I didn’t have a very big room, but I made the most of what I had. […]

Labor Pains

Been off work since last Wednesday. Decided I needed an extended Labor Day weekend so I took off work from last Wednesday thru today. Almost seven whole days away from the place I like to call “Fresh Hell”. The plan was simple, really. My wife was taking Thursday and Friday off as well, so on […]

99 Problems But Vinyl Ain’t One

The year of our Lord 2023 started out with me feeling like I’d run the course in regards to vinyl buying. I don’t know if I was burnt out, going through a rough record patch, or maybe it was just the idea that prices were going to just keep going up and up. Regardless, I […]

Seventy-Seven

Today my dad turns 77 years old. This past Monday he had a total hip replacement on his right hip, so he’s celebrating being on this earth 77 years by becoming part man/part machine. For the last couple of years my dad has been dealing with what he thought was back pain, but it turned […]

Hip Pop Hooray

My parents have been married for almost 56 years. My mom was 18 and my dad was 21. Was it what you’d call a shotgun wedding? Well, my older brother was born three months later, so you can do the math. But regardless of the circumstances they’ve remained married, and mostly happily, ever since. Little […]

Kids and Adults and Itchy Dogs, Oh My!

It’s been an interesting couple weeks. Interesting as in sometimes not so great and sometimes just it is what it is. A couple weekends ago my good friend and nearly quarter century work pal had a get-together at his place. It was a celebration of the fact that he is officially cancer-free. He spent January […]

“There Must Be Some Misunderstanding” : Growing Up With Phil And Genesis

There were a select group of artists that I grew up with. Not artists that I was a fan of and bought their albums necessarily, but more so were hoisted upon my ears via radio waves; Casey Kasem’s Top 40 Countdown, 80s FM chart toppers, school bus rides to middle school, and extended drives with […]

Hot Wheels, Reminiscing, And Memories In Boxes

I was buzzing thru the grocery store yesterday, doing the Wednesday afternoon post-work routine of buying groceries for the week. At the end of one of the freezer aisles Kroger had put a bin full of Matchbox ‘Hot Wheels’ cars. It seemed kind of out of place at Kroger. I could see it at Walmart […]

Lost In The Woods : Brown County In Summation

For 48 hours one of my best pals and I spent a weekend in Central Indiana among trees, secluded cabins, tourists, bikers, hikers, joggers, and a cast of quirky characters. We rented a place outside of Nashville so we could spend our days hiking trails in two state parks, and our nights chilling out at […]