My So Called Life
All the random ass shit that happens. Read at your own risk.
Day-to-day dispatches from a life that is technically ordinary and somehow never boring. Work problems, relationship observations, aging indignities, boundary violations, and the occasional moment of genuine clarity that makes all the rest of it worth it. The catch-all category for everything that doesn't fit neatly anywhere else — which, honestly, describes most of real life.Sky-High Adventures in Social Distancing
Dropping my sons at DFW during COVID. The airport was a ghost town. The ex texted me an hour after the boys already had — clearly expecting to start a fight. Didn't work.
COVID Diaries Day 200 – New Habits, New Normal?
What things do I wish that would stick around from the COVID experience? I came across this question on Twitter and it got me thinking. The comments, as expected, were divided between appreciation for the evolved human response to a pandemic, to the ignorant disdain for anything that required accepting any personal responsibility in preventing the spread of the virus.
Love is Dead – Casualty of the Divorce
I wanted the opposite of what my mother had. Instead I ended up in somewhat the same place — and I'm not trying again.
More Adventures in Social Distancing
Pedicures, a reopened Alamo Drafthouse, and physically dragging La Llorona away from strangers who don't want her in their six-foot bubble.
In the Navy – Tales of Misogyny
A Chief asked me to step down from a committee I'd chaired for two years so his buddy could get the eval bullet. I said no.
