Category: Essay

  • The Big 4-0

    The Big 4-0

    I’ve been thinking about what to say about this year’s birthday, and honestly? What am I supposed to say? Middle age is a strange place to be, and I can understand a little more after the past few years how the concept of a midlife crisis comes about. Biologically the body might or might not…

  • Election Day should be a National Holiday

    Election Day should be a National Holiday

    Tinsel-covered decorations and sales are in full force all around the nation as Christmas is right around the corner. Dollar General down the way from the house didn’t even make it past Halloween this year before they began to push out the variety candy bags and replaced them with the red and green decorations for…

  • Securing a digital past

    Securing a digital past

    Lately, I’ve been having to spend more time on family issues. Mostly surrounding my father, who is sadly afflicted with some sort of issues causing problems with some of his cognitive functions. We’ve been to doctors, but have no firm diagnosis of what is going on with him other than “we know he has some…

  • Crying wolf over the weather

    Crying wolf over the weather

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  • Rivalries

    Rivalries

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  • Acts of Violence

    Acts of Violence

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  • What the Trump?

    What the Trump?

    Editor’s note: I began this post at the beginning of June, not long after the verdict of came out following the conclusion of the State of New York vs. Donald J. Trump, and let it sit while I was working on news items of local import. I have since expanded my thoughts to include the…

  • Finding a Connection

    Finding a Connection

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  • Deadline dreams

    Deadline dreams

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  • Ballot box blues

    Ballot box blues

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