Life is complicated …
… It starts before we’re ready. It continues while we’re still trying to figure out the point of it. And it ends long before we’ve worked out just what to do. This is my daily struggle.
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Bookstores, The World Has Moved On, Part 12 — March 24, 2026
THE DAILY UPDATE There was a time when I was a teenager that I was convinced I would meet my future wife in a Waldenbooks. I’d be doing what weird teenage me often did – wandering the narrow aisles of the mall-encapsulated bookstore – and there she would be, contentedly paging through a classic or…
Dear Universe, March 18, 2026
THE DAILY UPDATE Dear Universe, I’m tired. Not the kind of tired that sleep fixes. The kind of tired that comes from carrying too much for too long, with no place to set any of it down. I feel like I’m holding up the sky with my bare hands, and everyone around me just assumes…
Unseen Grief, March 17, 2026
THE DAILY UPDATE I remember what it felt like in the wake of the death of my first son when everything stopped. The phone calls stopped. The cards stopped. The emails stopped. The meals stopped. The drop-ins stopped. Everything just stopped. Except, of course, for the grief over losing my son. At one level, I…
Whose Life Is This? March 11, 2026
THE DAILY UPDATE Driving to work today through the spitting rain and darkness, I had the thought that I’m not sure whose life I’m living. All I could figure out in the 33 minutes between home garage and parking garage is that it certainly isn’t my own. And that has me sad. Really, really sad.…
Dark Matter, March 4, 2026
THE DAILY UPDATE If there were any doubt that the human being is the most stupidly arrogant species to ever roam the Earth, consider this: Roughly 85% of the universe is compromised of something we have no clue about, yet we slap a name on it and boldly assert that the vast expanse that contains…
Axolotl Research, March 2, 2026
THE DAILY UPDATE Depending on your perspective, the axolotl is either incredibly cute or the spawn of the devil. These freaky little bastards are part of the salamander family and are found in the wild only in a lake complex near Mexico City. Not in the wild, they are found in a growing number of…
Power Ballads: The World Has Moved On, Part 11 — February 27, 2026
THE DAILY UPDATE I have long said that I am my music. Want to know how I’m doing? Check out what I’ve been listening to recently on Spotify. The science hippies are finally waking up to the truth I’ve known all along — we are our music. Our heart rates, our brainwaves, our motor systems…
Being Invisible, Feb. 17, 2026
THE DAILY UPDATE I’ve struggled for a good 30 minutes trying to figure out how to start this stupid post. And as of this moment, I still haven’t come up with anything. So let’s just get to it and skip the intro, shall we? I think I’m invisible. No, not in the seriously-mentally-ill, I’m-not-really-here way.…
Sarah Sandbags, Feb. 15, 2026
THE DAILY UPDATE For the past eight years or so, I’ve shared some pretty special space with Sarah Sandbags as two of the regulars at Livin’ Sublime Wellness’ restorative yoga classes. It was hard to miss Sarah. She was tall, thin, the typical build of the volleyball player she was. Sarah passed away this morning…
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