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High Five! (18-Oct-24) October 18, 2024 Links & High Five & Writing What’s in my NOW? — Dan Dao - This speaks to me and my obsessive commercialism/materialism: “A strategy I use to curb non-essential spending is to Today’s Viewing: Will & Harper October 7, 2024 Today’s Viewing & TV & Non-Fiction & Writing & Film Spoiler Alert & Trigger Warning: This entry discusses scenes from the Netflix film Will & Harper in case you have not watched it yet. Let me start The Only Way Is Through June 21, 2024 Writing & Non-Fiction & Motorcycle Roughly 10 or so years ago when I first started riding, I was uncomfortable going much faster than 45 mph. I realized such would be fine on back 365 Days of Sammy March 30, 2024 Samson & Delilah & Dogs & Writing & Non-Fiction Back in 2021 we had to say goodbye to our beloved dog, Samson, not even a year after losing his sister, Delilah. This is a loss that affects me far Finding Your Catharsis March 28, 2024 Writing & Non-Fiction “…to sleep, perchance to dream…” I have long since passed that age where I realize that there is more track behind me now than lies before me. I Kurt Cobain at 50 (republished) February 20, 2024 Writing & Non-Fiction & Kurt Cobain & Nirvana & Gen X I wrote what follows on February 20, 2017, on what would have been Kurt Cobain’s 50th birthday. Obviously Kurt died by suicide at 27, a lifetime On Death… January 22, 2024 Writing & Non-Fiction I think of death all of the time. I’m ashamed to admit that I am a bit obsessed. Not the death of others, well, sometimes, but definitely not Depeche John January 22, 2024 Writing & Non-Fiction & Family & Depeche Mode In the summer of 1988 my Uncle John, just 23 years old, was killed in a car accident. I don’t recall all of the particulars, something about a car Mackinac January 22, 2024 Writing & Non-Fiction & Family It was the summer of 1984. I was 10yrs old, dorky and clueless as I’ll ever be, and for some reason oddly passionate about The Ghostbusters film. As Defeated January 22, 2024 Writing & Non-Fiction & Family The light turned green, my right foot applied pressure to the accelerator as my 2004 Pontiac Vibe slowly inched forward into the intersection.