The truth is, I couldn’t see the road you all went down. I wish I had. It would have made life easier in a lot of ways. And I probably would have made a lot of people happier as well. But I’m not prone to efficiency, to excellency, to excess. I never have been....
Read more →It’s a weird thing. In a week I turn 49, and via social media, I find I am still looking for approval from people in my past. From old high school classmates who don’t really know me, to a grand extent. From old church acquaintances that I was around, but never very close to,...
Read more →After a short night last night, I wandered through the morning today with a quiet anxiety when I awoke from sleepwalking, somewhere after 10:30. For some reason, I felt a deep nervousness about tonight, which may or may not have been warranted. Tonight, I was attending my first HOA community board meeting. After a...
Read more →You can never quite get inside what really happened to someone else. You can try, I guess, but how far can you really go? How much can you really know? When I met him, he set me up in my room in the men’s dorm when I first arrived early that misty fall in...
Read more →Today, Kris Bryant, Cubs wunderkind and last year’s National league MVP, got tossed from a major league game for his first time ever, for pointing out to the ump that his called second and third strikes were horrible. That was cool. In the same game, Cubs starting pitcher John Lackey, grumbler extraordinaire, beaned 4...
Read more →When the morning rain was pushed out by the cresting sun and a curtain of humidity fell over the plain, he had gone out to see about trimming some bushes down. He was middle-aged and portly, too large, but his face was long and narrow under his brown thin-brimmed cap. His overalls held everything...
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I had a great time on Saturday going to the zoo with my nephew. With his brother out of town, I thought he might enjoy getting out of the house for the afternoon, and I thought the zoo would be a good place for me to take a few practice photos as I try...
Read more →When Cortez came with his expedition from Cuba to Mesoamerica in 1519, he did it largely at his own expense, and without the blessings of his compatriot, the Governor of Cuba, Diego Velazquez de Cuellar. In fact, Cuellar actually cancelled Cortez’s expedition at the last minute, but Cortez didn’t care. He had largely funded...
Read more →After the talk, after they had separated and she had left him out in front of the bar and she had walked away, heading to her car, all of the words said, he stood silent, stunned, shocked. That? That was how it was ending? After years together? That was what really happened, when he...
Read more →Tonight, to cap the festivities around my dad’s birthday on Monday, I asked him to go with me to see the new film “Dunkirk.” We both enjoy and appreciate World War II films, and when each of us saw the trailer for this film, we both voiced a desire to see it, so it...
Read more →Wednesday night, and I came home after work and vacuumed the front room and scrubbed some cat barf spots on the carpet and pet the cats for a little bit and watched the start of the White Sox-Dodgers game, but I wanted to try and make some progress- anything- on any of the books...
Read more →When the sun began diving, we met on the road. The lane was uneven, or so I am told. She bent under a basket of laundry and coal, I asked if I could bare it and gave it a go. The sun was dyspeptic, a regular bear, but I didn’t mind as we walked...
Read more →Beauty from the ashes. There is always hope. And beauty. What’s done is done. Say thank you for the good, grieve what you think you lost. Apologize for your faults and failings. Accept what you have chosen. Then move forward, and walk right. And chase and find your life.
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This morning, a friend of a friend- and the sister of an old Sunday school classmate, died of cancer. Today, my father turned 76. This late afternoon, my father was pulled over for speeding. Excessively. His excuse was he was talking. This evening, I bought two officers some dinner to appease the guilt I...
Read more →At the turn of this year, I did a “75 Things” list, highlighting 75 things about my Mom and her life that meant a lot to me. Today is the last day of my father’s 75th year, as he turns 76 tomorrow, so here is my list of 75 great things about my dad...
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