The Flame

My life was never going to be easy. Not one bit. I come from a broken home, in a broken part of town, well known by broken people. The life I had chosen for myself at the beginning was one of loss, hardship,

I’ve come to believe that alternate universes exist. Not in some cosmic, sci-fi sense, but right here, on this same spinning planet we all share. I grew up in a humble background, where what to eat could

Well, I certainly tried, but it seems that despite sleep being my friend, I am not a very good friend with sleep. Yesterday's accountability list: Stay on my phone for <1 hour X Exercise ✓ Stretch ✓

Not 100% success, but I did hit most of the items on my list yesterday. I still call that a success! Stay on my phone for less than 1 hour ✓ Exercise ✓ Stretch ✓ Meditate ✓ Draw or read an art history

Yesterday I was previewing an album by a band I follow. They're called Talk to Her, and they play a sort of electronic indie rock post-punk music. Very evocative and emotional, I love them. They're my

I failed big time yesterday, and I have to take accountability for that. After all, that's the entire point of these accountability lists, isn't it? Figuring out what went wrong. The timing was spectacular,

It's definitely been a bit since I've posted one of these lists. I certainly fell off some of the good habits I had been establishing, so it's high time to resume. I started off feeling quite ambitious

Run around this broken, foreign city like a marionette, trying to find myself a warm sponge bath, and a hand to hold that won’t prickle my thumbs and ask me questions I’m not prepared to answer yet. Where’d

My Samsung S21+, which I bought used about six months ago, suddenly developed a green line stretching across the screen from top to bottom. It's a stubborn streak of light that refused to disappear. At

I was thinking today about Monty Python’s Dead Parrot sketch. You know the one — the one where John Cleese, as the furious customer, tries to return a clearly deceased parrot to a pet shop run by an

Time to write a positive post for a change. Sometimes it's good to refocus away from the negatives. I like laughing. I like stand-up comedy. I like intelligent humor. Unsurprisingly, I like George Carlin!

I just came across a great quote from Terry Pratchett on YouTube: “There have been times, lately, when I dearly wished that I could change the past. Well, I can’t, but I can change the present, so that

Not all men are equal; good men are deserving of respect.

I am not used to being unemployed. My entire life I've either been employed or undergoing education (or both) with small exceptions of a few weeks at maximum. Thus, I am in unfamiliar waters right now.

When I married newly, I made a promise to my wife. A promise born out of love and a deep desire for her peace of mind. I told her she didn’t have to work if she didn’t want to. Not because I wanted to