Last year was my first year working full-time as a writer. I worked freelance for CT News Junkie and for the New Haven Independent, so I did alot of writing. But how much is “alot”? Fortunately, I’ve had to maintain a spreadsheet of all the articles I wrote for News Junkie. According to that tally,…
2024 sucked. To paraphrase Homer Simpson in a different context, it was the suckiest bunch of suck that ever sucked. It both sucked and blew, which, as Bart Simpson pointed out, is hard to do. It started out with my mental health taking a nosedive to the point where I was having suicidal ideations. That…
10ish years ago, I gave up soda. I had an absolutely disastrous annual physical that year. My bad cholesterol was high, my good cholesterol was low, my blood pressure was high, and my blood sugar was high. I was overweight. I hadn’t had a good night’s sleep in years. Between having a full-time job, a…
There was a kerfuffle in the chess world this weekend. Chess Grandmaster Magnus Carlsen quit a tournament on Friday because the tournament officials tried to get him to change out of his jeans. He’ll be back in on Monday. The tournament decided to loosen their dress code to allow “appropriate jeans”. I find the whole…
I don’t have much of anything to say today. It’s not writers block. It’s a case of the things that are on my mind aren’t my stories to tell. That’s something I’m always conscious of. You may have noticed that I talk about myself a lot in these posts. That’s because I’m uncomfortable telling other…
Does anyone else remember a long time ago when we were warned about refrigerators? It was back in the 1980s. Adults wanted us to be careful. Otherwise, when we were outside playing hide and seek, we might climb into an old, abandoned fridge, not be able to get out, and suffocate in there. It was…
I have been unemployed since June. It’s been terrible. It’s embarrassing and emasculating. I just can’t seem to get a job anywhere. I’ve been sending out five to seven applications a week and I’ve gotten exactly two interviews. Neither one panned out even though I felt like both interviews went well. The worst part is,…
December is here. Can you believe it? It feels like January was last week. That’s definitely one of the less fun parts of getting older. Oh well. December really is here. Trust me, I checked. For long time readers of this blog, you know what that means. It’s time for me to do a post…
Masculinity is a trap. At least that’s what my partner is always saying. I think she’s right in a lot of ways. I know I feel trapped by masculinity a lot of the time. Part of that trap is just figuring out what masculinity is. I do know, in one sense, I’m an adult male,…
There is no Thanksgiving season. Thanksgiving lands between Halloween and Christmas. We have a tendency to jump right from Spooky Season to Christmas season. I don’t know why. Thanksgiving is a big deal holiday. Many people say it’s their favorite holiday. It has food, family, and friends. That’s All We Need. Well, I say we…
