I wake up early a lot these days. I don’t know if it’s genetics…or just getting a little older…or any of the reasons people can’t sleep in the morning…but I seem to wake up early. The other morning, I was … Continue reading
Yearly Archives: 2013
In this life, people have big days all the time. Someone is coming, someone is going…somewhere one of us is getting ready to have some kind of big day. It’s the only real consistency in our lives…something is probably going … Continue reading
I’m working on a bathroom project these days. It should have been something simple. It’s not a full remodel…it’s just tearing out a short wall, rebuilding the wall, sheetrocking and taping and finishing the new wall, replacing the door with … Continue reading
It’s hard to stop returning to thinking about Detroit. That’s a good and powerfully convoluted way of saying that Detroit and all those vacant buildings have captured my imagination. Detroit! What’s up with that? I was driving around (one of … Continue reading
When someone goes missing in the woods, they send out a search party. They don’t let another evening pass when they discover that a person isn’t where they need to be. But what if a person’s “never left the building” … Continue reading
01 For What It’s Worth I couldn’t find the Buffalo Springfield song…but here’s a version by Keb Mo’. I couldn’t think of … Continue reading
We have 8 chickens. Five of those chickens are hens, and the rest are roosters. Three roosters are too many by about a margin of 2. We should get rid of two of our roosters. There…that’s pretty straightforward. We need … Continue reading
I’ve been alive, let’s see…. 53 years X 365 days = 19,345 Then add the days so far in this year (past my birthday in April…) 19,345 + 127 = 19,472 Then, if I was going to be completely accurate … Continue reading
I have a knife that has ridden in my pocket for a number of years. It’s been sharpened so often that the blade is getting kind of thin. The main blade is pretty sharp….but a lot of the metal is … Continue reading