Who I Am, Day 4There are quite a few new visitors to this blog and the daily Care Package, so I’m spending the next few days dedicating it to some of the pieces of culture that I count among my favorite. I hope you enjoy them. Poetry: This Morning I Pray for My Enemies by …
Tag: anxiety
Apocalypse In Aisle 3
Over the past few weeks, as reality started to bend until its spine snapped and it took on a nearly unrecognizable shape, I’ve been hit by waves of surreality. Oftentimes when these waves wash over me, I feel a bit dizzy, my stomach gets a little queasy, and I find myself short of breath. After …
Down With the Sickness
Monday afternoon I started getting this annoying, dry cough. I was on my way home from an appointment, and it just popped into existence. Scratchy but not. Forceful but not. There but not. I felt fine otherwise, but holy cats! It was so annoying. By the time I went to bed, the dang thing was …
Christmas Magic
As I wrote a little while back (Grinch and Bear It, or The Turn of the Scrooge; 12/9/18), I’m not a Christmas guy. I won’t rehash it all here. You can go back and read all about it. Anyway, last week two co-workers and I took a couple of clients to visit Santa. Watching the …
THANKSREADING 2018: Comic Relief
It began with a battle between Spider-Man and the Juggernaut. Amazing Spider-Man Vol. 1. Issue 230. Late spring 1982. I was seven-and-a-half, sick with some virus or other. I begged to get out of the house for a few minutes, and Mom agreed to let me go with her to the Waterville Market – back …
