Man, finding good examples for writing practice can be real tricky, especially when you want something specific like a sentence dripping with smugness. I hit that wall just yesterday.
I sat down, laptop open, ready to practice writing smug characters....
So this whole thing started last Thursday when I passed by that tattoo parlor downtown. Saw this guy walk out with this seriously intricate tattoo on his forearm – saint-looking figure holding what looked like a club, surrounded by...
Okay, so here’s the deal: my birthday always falls smack on St. Paddy’s Day. Every single year. For the longest time, it felt like getting totally ripped off – either my birthday stuff got drowned in green beer nonsense,...
Okay so today I decided to dig into this Joshua Sutter guy popping up everywhere. Honestly, I saw the name floating around forums and social media lately, and curiosity got the best of me. Who is this guy, really?
The...
Okay so yesterday my wife really wanted to watch Wicked Which of the West – that’s what she called it anyway, think she meant the Oz movie with the flying monkeys? Yeah, that one. Said her friends were talking...
My Solo Writing Day
So, Tuesday morning I decided to test drive writing alone. Made my usual giant mug of coffee, shut myself in the little home office we use for storage mostly, turned the phone off. Silence, right? Figured...
My Wild Goose Chase for “The Party’s Over”
Okay, so last night around 11 PM, I got this dumb idea stuck in my head. I needed Kim Phillips-Fein’s “The Party’s Over: How the Right Went Wrong”. Like, right now. Don’t...
So I saw this title about best camera angles for shoe photos and thought, hey I should try that. Always messing up my product shots for the blog, right? Got some new kicks that looked fire in person but...
So the other day I was trying to find role models in volleyball for some younger players I know, you know? LGBTQ+ folks in sports. And honestly, I kinda expected it to be easy – just open Google and...
Okay so last night I was watching The Godfather again, right? For like the tenth time. But this time, something clicked differently. I’d always focused on Michael, Vito, the gangster stuff – you know, the main event. But man,...
