#family
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Ma
Been holding off on posting of my mother’s passing here until I wrote something for her. Now what I have here doesn’t even scratch the surface of what she meant to us and our family and her friends, but, like my Dad, who passed around 30 or so years ago now, she was important, so… Continue reading
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New Year’s Eve, Stinky Joe and “For the Love of Benji”
(a silly sort of stream ramble) Now I don’t know about you all but I didn’t really have anything in mind for this New Year’s Eve, very much unlike New Year’s Eve’s from recent years past where I, at best, have ended up panhandling on a street corner in the morning or busking with no… Continue reading
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Christmas Remembered (a furtive bow)
For some reason Christmas has seemed to be a bit more of a thing for me this year, I don’t really know why, it never has in the past, even with it being Dad’s birthday. I mean it’s nothing new, it wasn’t like it suddenly occurred to us, “Holy Cow!!! Beck, Nick, Mom (when you… Continue reading
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Solace in the Attic and the Absence of Heroes and Good Men
I haven’t written or posted anything yet about a Tuesday, in a November, in a year of our lord whatever future noted forsaken that will be a line of demarcation for new generations of where a majority in this once grand land, one that had always prided itself on its exceptionalism suddenly, and en masse,… Continue reading
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It’s a Frankenberry Monster Cereal Family Time … Again … So Matt …
(Note: this tends to be a yearly thing, ya know, with this time of year rolling around on a yearly basis and I have written different iterations of this over the years but it is still fun in, ya know, another year’s iterations sorta way) When I got home earlier last week I said to… Continue reading
