A Few Words On The Mental Health Value Of Cleaning; Or, Feng Shui Therapy

I’ve been putting a lot of energy into cleaning lately. I mean, I clean a lot around the house. It’s sort of my go-to process for working out stress and anxiety, but also I think it might be a compulsion. I’m not washing my hands obsessively every 10 minutes or so, but there is a […]

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 […]

Take A Walk

I was never much of a runner. Or, a runner at all. As a kid in gym I was usually the last to finish the mile, with the exception of one or two others in class. I never completely stopped running, but I would slow to a jog or speed walk while holding my side […]

Hello From Wherever This Is

Hey. Yeah, I’ve been a little absent this week. Call it mental fatigue, preoccupation, or just a lack of hard drive space in the brain to sit and write, I just haven’t been in the right place to expound on albums or tell more Midwest tales of growing up. Sometimes things happen and you start […]

I love You, But Don’t Invite Me To Anything

There comes a time in one’s life when you’ve got to take stock of those “responsibilities” we put on ourselves in regards to staying in contact with family, friends, and acquaintances. When we’re younger it’s instilled in us by our parents that family is family. There’s a function, you should go. So we go, whether […]

Is This Long Covid?(Or Am I Just Sad?)

I’ve been in a bit of a rut, lately. Ever since that bout of Covid a little over a month ago I just haven’t felt, well, normal. There are days when I feel okay. I started to go to the Y a week afterwards and got in two days before I tapped out. Just wasn’t […]

Fine, Art.

I started drawing and painting in earnest a little over a year ago. It started with a picture I painted in watercolors on a postcard made from watercolor paper. Then a birthday card for my son where I drew Trent Reznor singing a special birthday version of “Head Like A Hole”. It was a last […]

These Are Things I Made Because I Like To Make Things

I think we’re all born with the inherent desire to make things. Some parents would say messes might be the first true urge we have to make, but I think that’s a different sort of creation that follows us into adulthood for very different reasons. When I say make things I’m referring to the creative […]

30 Days Since A lost Mind Accident

I had a bit of a heavy day yesterday. There’s the looming storm cloud of my friend and longtime co-worker(24 years this year) of leaving for an undetermined amount of time to deal with cancer. His docs say its 100% survivable which is what you want to hear with any cancer battle, but it doesn’t […]

“We have resumed control…”

It’s been a week since I posted anything. Or nearly a week. I knew it’d been awhile since my Chromebook was completely dead, sitting idly on top of the subwoofer in the living room collecting dust. After a two-week build up of album lists and revisiting records of 2022’s past, I needed a break. I […]