Good motherfuckin’ tunes 🎶😆

I’ve made a short playlist of songs that feature the prominent and frequent use of “motherfuck” and its variants (e.g., motherfucker, motherfucking) because that tickles me 😆 If this sort of thing tickles you as well, check out the playlist on YouTube here. If […]

Let Me Be Waymond

There was a time, long ago, when I wanted to be the hero of my story. I wanted to be someone special, a leader, someone the world would remember when I was gone. That’s pretty normal, I think, especially for a straight white boy […]

The World Through My Eyes

The darkness of “Possimism” comes easily to me, effortlessly taking up any space I don’t consciously defend with the colorful shield of “The Sun Hasn’t Left“ The sentiments of those two songs are always at war in my mind. I used DALL-E to create […]

The Most Important Words

The most important words a man can say are, “I will do better.” These are not the most important words any man can say. I am a man, and they are what I needed to say. The ancient code of the Knights Radiant says […]

Coming Down the Mountain

Running down a mountain on a wilderness trail can go one of two ways: It can be exhilarating and fun, almost like you’re flying. There can be moments when you feel more alive and connected to your body and to the world than you’ve […]

My Favorite Things

This is a living document that I will update from time to time with new favorites and old favorites that slipped my mind when I first posted. Bulleted lists are in no particular order. Favorite books The Night’s Dawn Trilogy by Peter F. Hamilton Every […]

If I’m to love you

The core of who you are, if you could be stripped and distilled into a geometric shape, would be an equilateral triangle composed of intellect, compassion, and physical affection. You think about the world and about your place in it. You don’t crumble when […]

I love His Dark Materials

Finished the last episode of His Dark Materials last night, and I’m giving the show a perfect 5-star rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Yes, it was somewhat altered from the books that I love so much; but the changes made sense for a TV adaptation, and I […]

After the fire

I remember the first time I saw images of what the 1988 wildfire did to Yellowstone: Blackened trunks of naked lodgepole pine jutting from scorched earth like broken bones piercing burnt fleshA charred skeleton of a forest, a corpse of ashen grasslandWildland turned wasteland, […]

I am not your enemy

In the remote part of the world I called home for the past 3 and a half years, there’s a small store with a political poster displayed prominently on the front door. It’s a meme you’ve probably seen online: Donald Trump pointing at the […]