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Lights Out

…the gravity of the situation hit me. I had almost died. My heart and breathing stopped.

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Orderly

a swirling maelstrom of shame and discontentment

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Serenity Thwarted

We are prisoners in a broken culture.

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Legacy Code

I have no time for sermons, platitudes, politics and cliche one liners. But sitting quietly in an empty room surrounded by my beloved dogs? Sometimes, just sometimes, I feel connected to the universe.

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Ephemeral

I’m not sure whether or not there are dogs in heaven. But If they are not there, I’m not really interested in visiting.

Anxious Change

It has been 1 week. It’s been a week. It started with what I thought would be a routine one on one meeting with my boss. But any pretense of normality was destroyed when he told me to hold while he called HR into our virtual meeting. My face immediately felt flushed. My heartbeat rapidly […]

Milestones

You must poke at the abyss and admit that there may be nothing under the surface.

Unplugged

I did it. I pulled the plug on social media. Right about now you are saying to yourself, “but wait, this IS social media.” Noted. But really this is more about the media I take in more than the content I push out. I have had a steady diet of memes for far too long. […]

I Will Survive

If I did one thing wrong, he was not averse to smacking me upside the head, or so I thought.

Apeman

Last night while I was in bed, futilely trying to fall asleep, I began listening to songs on my Spotify play list. As I scrolled through the list, different periods of my life came into focus. I realized that here is the catalogue of my life. As I hear a tune, my mind rolls back […]