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I take a moment to consider this day, some random Sunday in April during the 30th year of my life. Talks with Thom, my mother, and my sister. A lovely walk. A frightened nap and upset stomach. The same sort … Continue reading →

I could use a cigarette. For atmosphere mostly, because it would make me feel nauseous and guilty, but for the moment… Up on the balcony, the night air pressuring me to go back inside. Window shades drawn, and I’m sketching … Continue reading →

A marathon week. A quiet, intimate morning. Half the world beeping to begin, signaling completion, or to throw ‘er in reverse. There is a rumbling and a slight fear. And then it all just starts moving.

Talking it through really helped.  I hadn’t any notion of what I would actually need to work out, but it happened.  Telling the story reminded me of the power of stories.  Simply how you start to think about something directly … Continue reading →

It turns out I needed some help.  My new year started much like most days off: anxious optimism and a bit of procrastination.  It looked like I was about to spend the afternoon attacked by anxiety when I got a … Continue reading →

It’s the end of a year, a decade, and another day filled with things I planned to do. This year I hope to alleviate that stress and pressure and anxiety by simply doing instead of planning (or worrying).  That is … Continue reading →

I am obsessed with reading reviews of books, movies, and music.  I could literally spend an entire afternoon clicking on various links from Metacritic to “read full review” of almost anything.  I read them passively, with no agreement or disagreement … Continue reading →

We’ve been going for over a year and it used to fill me with dread.  Anxious dread.  Now it simply sits as something we still do. Tonight it is mildly inconvenient because I have work to do, but it isn’t … Continue reading →

Sometimes Thom and I exist in such a thick fog of stillness that I am unable to locate my self and my thoughts.  Let alone express them.  I was just musing to myself how sad it is that I really … Continue reading →

Today marks the return and the beginning.  It is the day Thom and I celebrate our anniversary.  It is also the day, as of this afternoon, that I had one of the more focused ideas in the history of my … Continue reading →