I have officially begun spending money to justify how much I work. It is official because I decided so. It is important to document because I must, having come to this conclusion, take action. But I reached this conclusion weeks ago, have done nothing yet, and have no plans to do anything now. There is therefore either a lie, a Read More

I took today off to decompress. This sounds nice, since I have been travelling every week for two months or so, and complaining about it for the last several weeks. The problem is that during compression, what was compressed comes out. When I get in these crunch times at work, I do what needs to be done. It is time Read More

I do this weird thing. When I feel thread bare and dull, like a leaf leftover from autumn, I want someone I trust to come and talk to me. But I don’t want to listen. I just want them to talk around me as I settle into sleep. I thought that was an odd way to behave when you wanted Read More

I was hiking a week before my birthday and as I stumped along I regretted that I was a year older. That hasn’t happened before; I have laughed at people who are bothered by their birthdays. What difference does it make? Closer to being dead; so much the better. It wasn’t the death ahead that bothered me, though; it was Read More