Another Weekend Laid To Rest

The weekend wasn’t bad. It moved along like it was in a hurry(as usual) to get back to whence it came, but that’s par for the course. That’s the nature of the weekend; here and gone like Haley’s Comet. Friday afternoon is but a distant memory(did it really happen?) I sometimes feel like it’s the […]

Wednesday Check-In : Feeling It, Man

How’s everybody doing? It’s ‘Hump Day’, which in my world I consider ‘third Monday’. There’s Monday, then second Monday(Tuesday), and then third Monday which is Wednesday. Then there’s Thursday and Friday. It’s been this way since we were told our plant was closing almost two years ago next month. I find Monday and Tuesday pretty […]

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 […]

Photos Are Just Memories Out Of Context

Last week on one of my afternoon walks I decided to walk down to Chapman Lake Park. This is a small neighborhood located off of Chapman Lake, one of the many lakes that surround the area where I live. As a kid Chapman Lake Park was located directly across the field from the house I […]

My Kroger Is A Dump, And Why I Still Shop There

My Kroger store is a dump. Every time I go in there there’s some new Hell I have to endure. I almost always have to use the bathroom when I get there because I drink three to four liters of water a day at work, so by the time I reach Kroger I’ve got to […]

Post Holiday Dread…Feelin’ It, Man

I feel like I’ve been working towards this for awhile now. Probably since October. It seems like one thing after another has been piling up, leading to some massive mental and anxiety blowout. We got back from vacation in October and found out the transmission was shot in our van, so that was a couple […]

Existential Fear and the Great Unknown

Been having some anxiety flair ups the last couple weeks. Out of nowhere it feels as if the bottom of my stomach falls out and my brain feels as if its stretching like saltwater taffy into non-existence. It’s the dread of something right behind me that I can’t see. Something looming, ominous and dangerous, just […]

“a cup of coffee and a slice of time…”

So where do you go when you feel like you’ve gotten to a dead end? Where do you find the answers when the questions you hear yourself asking are falling on deaf ears? Your mind tells you “No one cares and no one ever really did”, and who are you to argue with your mind? […]

Please Don’t Ask

I’m sitting here feeling a bit under the weather. Spinning some Genesis to help with the healing process. It seems the multitudes of viruses, bugs, and general disease that have made their way through my home the last three months that failed to make their mark on me have, indeed, finally made their mark. I […]

Running

Running is starting to become easier for me. Maybe it’s that I’m getting healthier as I get older. Or maybe it’s that I’m scared. Scared of what? Mortality. I’m “runnin’ from the devil”, perhaps. You get older you get closer to the big sleep. It’s inevitable. It’s gonna happen. “I’m still relatively young. I’ve got […]