This is a hard one to write, that is if I’m going to be honest in this space. It’s a couple weeks or so until Thanksgiving at the time of writing and the next two months plus will be the Christmas holiday season, maybe even sooner as the ads on television seem to think it […]

It’s spooky season again, but this year I’m thinking that the scariest thing is how many people I know that are really struggling, how many are a missed paycheck away from some really horrible outcomes, how many cannot meet basic needs, how many are right now facing a horror story worse than any ghost, goblin, […]

Fall has returned to our radars and so has Fall allergies. For me it’s kinda funny because besides knowing I’m allergic to dogs and cats (and honestly not caring one bit), I did not have a lot of seasonal symptoms until living for over a year in Knoxville, Tennessee where the locals claim: “If you […]

So I spend a lot of time writing about things that happen to me and how I perceive them and at times that is to be expected, as most of us ‘scribblers’ base their writing on personal experience. Writing also lets you examine other people the way a painter might examine the subject matter of […]

Imagine you’re hearing a horrendous discord of sounds, a sonic sting so grating that you want to plug your ears. The sound is very deceptive, because to most people hearing said sounds they would say they are not that bad, in fact they may even dismiss them as a slight annoyance, a mosquito to be […]