I encountered a ghost last week. My dad was in the hospital — he had an inflamed and infected gall bladder, which needed to come out, and at eighty-four surgery is not easy to recover from — and I was down in Virginia to be there. I stayed at my parents’ house. Spending all dayContinue reading “Ghost Stories”
Monthly Archives: June 2026
A Picture You Can Almost Hear
Look at this picture. Do you hear what I hear? The Windowx XP startup sound? This hillside is almost the default Bliss wallpaper. I’m not going to tell you I didn’t vocalize the startup sound as I took this picture. 😆 It’s only recently that I’ve begun to play that classic computer game Minesweeper. ThereContinue reading “A Picture You Can Almost Hear”
Arguing With Myself
An actual conversation with myself at Ollie’s Bargain Outlet earlier today. “Look! A Farewell to Arms!“ “You have it.” “But…” “You have two copies. And an ebook.” “But I don’t have this one.” “You also don’t need it.” “But…” “Are you going to read it?” “No…” “Then why do you want it?” “I don’t haveContinue reading “Arguing With Myself”
Tales of Diamond: The Burnout
When I was in college one of my psychology professors, Dr. Rubin, asked in class one day, “Is it worth dying for?” He was talking about stress, what stress does to the body and the brain, and how stress takes years off a person’s life. Yesterday a blog post from 2019 surfaced on my blog.Continue reading “Tales of Diamond: The Burnout”
Those Ol’ Job Search Blues
I have written a great many cover letters over the past year and a half. There’s one thing, every cover letter, I have to decide. Should I include it? Or do I not? My visual impairment. A few months before COVID I spent a week in intensive care. My vision melted. I was on strokeContinue reading “Those Ol’ Job Search Blues”