Record Cleaning For The Soul

Lately I’ve found a lot of comfort in cleaning my record collection. Maybe it’s just a distraction for a tired brain, or maybe it’s my anal-retentive, OCD tendencies up to their old tricks. Or possibly it’s just as simple as records need cleaned regardless of how shiny they look on the surface. Even those brand […]

Birthday Boi

Today I turn 48 years old. Two years away from 50. Getting older has never really bothered me. I’ve always felt like an old person in a young person’s body anyways. Not in a Freaky Friday, Vice Versa, Like Father Like Son sort of way, but more in the Benjamin Buttons sort of way. But […]

Birthdays are for children and dogs

The only birthdays that matter are for children and dogs. Birthdays for adults just seem like obligations. Obligations for you to accept that you’re a year older, and obligations for those around you to acknowledge that year milestone by saying “Happy birthday, you old so n so!”. Or even worse at work where the obligation, […]

Forty-Four

Today I turn 44 years old. I don’t feel much different from 43. Some days I feel like I’m 26. Other days I feel like I should be retired and taking chondroitin with my prune juice and egg whites in the morning. Tomorrow I’ll probably feel feeble and in my 80s because I worked in […]

Ten Years Gone

I can’t believe how fast the last ten years have gone by. That’s no more apparent than when I look at my kids. We celebrated our oldest daughter turning 13 last week. A milestone in the life of a kid. The kid turns to a teen, and the parent turns slightly less cool than they […]

Birthday Wishes and the Meaning of Life

So my son turned 8 years old yesterday. One more year down. One more year that has blown out of the car window called life. If you ask him how the year went, he’d give you a weird look and say “I don’t know.” I think that’s a fair answer coming from an 8 year […]