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CAREFUL PLANNING TAKES TIME

Planning, careful planning, is an essential element to all caring relationships. Especially the relationship you have with yourself, your inner-world with your inner-voice on a continuous narrative. ‘Let’s do this, then that, but this before that. And only on the weekend.’ What kind of a plan is that, a beer drinker’s weight loss plan? Nooooooo, […]

TRAFFIC SEARCH: FIND WHAT FINDS YOU

Traffic search is the opposite of a normal search. For your search, you type in a question. My search asks ‘Where is my traffic coming from.’ I have my hunches, my suspicions, my hopes.

HARD RAIN FALLING, GUTTERS OVERFLOWING, NOW WHAT?

I’ve got a hard rain falling in drops you can see. Not the usual drizzle, not a sheet of water, but individual drops spaced and timed to perfection. It’s cold out, the kind of day that makes you think of other places you’ve heard about, seen on advertisements, the kind of cold and wet people […]

GOOD TIMING FOR A BETTER LIFE FROM COMICS TO SPORTS AND BEYOND

Good timing is what you see in the rearview mirror. It’s history, memory, and and it’s a rush. We all have our own story, unaffected and pure at first. Then things start happening. These things, those things, and we learn our story. Most important, we learn how to tell our story with good timing.

ANGRY MAN YELLING: WHEN TO LISTEN

An angry man is something you come across if you live long enough. Age fifteen was my breakout. I’d heard anger before, but not like the one at fifteen. Since then I’ve heard many men show their anger. What to do when they get in your face?

NO PHOTO ZONE? 3 PLACES YOU DON’T WANT TO FIND YOURSELF

The No Photo Zone is bigger than three, but something happened recently to link historical and cultural events. Three days ago an old man paid the piper for: Doing a job in 1940’s Germany. Even now people get arrested for their concentration camp guard pasts.

NEIGHBORHOOD LIFE: NEW PLACES, SAME NEIGHBORS

Neighborhood life changes when you change, otherwise it’s the same thing / different day every day. Does that sound like a rut? It’s a rut. Every time you hear the response “Same ol’ same ol’” when you ask how things are going, remember it when someone asks you. It’s a cry for help. Okay, maybe […]