Cinco De Momo

So some other random thoughts for a weekday. This is being written on Pioneer Day here in Utah or as we call it Cinco de Momo. It's apparently the day that the settlers arrived and looked down into the Salt Lake Valley for the first time. The fireworks are raining down because why not shoot …

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Two years later and counting…

Good old Facebook—if you use the basic settings, Facebook will remind you of everything that happened on a certain date in a certain year. Most of the time, they're not things that you always want to remember. There was a one-year series of about five or six shows on the Peacock network called *Swedish Death …

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Repair Work

Well go me—I’ve started at least three different blog entries, only to lose steam and drop them for something else entirely. It’s the ADHD shuffle meets stroke recovery meets ambition far beyond my current physical capacity.   This weekend I actually got some work done in the yard, revisiting projects I had previously abandoned. Of …

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I Am Not Okay

I am not okay.   I hate saying that out loud anymore because I know what happens next: the calls, the messages, the well-meaning panic from people afraid I’m going to hurt myself. Let me be clear: I haven’t had any thoughts of self-harm since that unforgettable day in May. Some might argue that my …

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