I do it often. I hear somebody say “I wouldn’t have changed anything…” and I think: What? The. Fuck!! Really?? I do like to play Woulda/Shoulda/Coulda. I have no idea how my life would’ve turned out of I had taken different forks in the road. I am quite happy in 2019. I like the path…
Let’s get this outta the way right up front: we are ALL gonna die. This is one of several docs that will be in the “Black Audit Bag” after I have said my final “Fuck Me!!” The “BAB” will include not only legal and financial documents. There will be directives, keepsakes, and copies of some…
Seven month’s ago I threw a party. A rarity for me. I’ve never been much on throwing parties. Called my party “The 25,590 Day Shindig,” celebrating 70 successful trips around the sun. Held it at a place which will receive a tablespoon or two of my ashes after these bones burn. [There is a list…
I’ve been doing some spring cleaning. I’m calling it “packing to move.” I don’t plan on going anywhere soon, but I wanta get a head start for when that day does come. On Wednesday I went through the 2 drawers of my nightstand. I shredded or recycled about a foot-and-a-half tall stack of stuff….
epiphany [ih-pif-uh-nee] a sudden, intuitive perception of or insight into the reality or essential meaning of something, usually initiated by some simple, homely, or commonplace occurrence or experience I could call the conversation in my head in early March a couple of years ago an epiphany. (More on that internal dialogue in a minute….) ….
Sometime in the late 90’s I started looking at the online edition of the St. Francois County Daily Journal several times a week. Mostly I just look at the obituaries. The D.J. is the only daily in the county where I was born, where my 92-year old dad lives today and where he has lived…
Man-oh-man do I need to get busy or what?? I have been a total sluggard since I posted my bucket list just a bit short of two years ago, mid-march of ’17. Yet somehow I was diagnosed with fatigue on my birthday last September and advised to slow down… And I had TOTALLY forgotten about…
The dreaded letter (reproduced below if you dare) will get sent to some folks via e-mail. They’ll also get this link to the JibJab: https://www.jibjab.com/view/make/disco_christmas/b079887c-1399-46b3-99d9-734253cdf3e0 -=-==–=-= Hope your 2018 has been a good year. Mine was a dandy. Saw more live music than ever. It was Awesome. Crossed several artists off my “bucket list”…a bunch of…
I’ve seen the Truckers several times in the past few years. I had never listened to them before I moved into The Abbey in fall of 2011. I’m sure glad that I took a friend’s recommendation and gave them a listen. (Thanks Gray!!) The Truckers can be profound & loud. I like that. Loud is…
On the first Friday of April in 1974, I had been living in my folks back room in Farmington, MO for a few months, but I was heading back to college in Cape Girardeau the next week. About to receive an undergrad education degree, I had just finished my 8 weeks of student teaching at…