This week's sporkful

For the last nine days I have been posting albums that influenced me on Facebook. The original assignment was for ten, so I will finish tomo...

All right; now for things coming back to me. This is a much messier story. The short version is that a girl that I had helped several ye...

I am changing the order in which I am writing these. So the part about something coming back to me? Not before tomorrow. I think it was th...

I want to write a little about some interactions that I have had - mostly before social distancing started - and things that they have meant...

One way my brain works is that a word or phrase will come to me repeatedly, trying to tell me something. Someday I will write about "ga...

Still keeping things short and light this week. Easter was not typical. There was no church - and while it is not the best Sunday activity...

There are many ways in which people are horrible, and I am sure I will get to those. Today I wanted to focus on some helpful acts that have ...

On March 22nd, James Dewees of Reggie and the Full Effect released a complete version of the 2008 album, Last Stop: Crappy Town . It include...

In yesterday's post I mentioned mass graves and backed up funeral homes. I have only heard of mass graves in New York. The backed up fun...

One of the frustrating parts of my mother's deterioration is doing one recommended thing and then finding that it is not enough. For e...

There was a time when I asked someone for feedback. It was on the draft of Family Ghosts , and it was specifically to see about whether I ha...

Chris Barron has been making music for over thirty years, writing the Spin Doctors' hit "Two Princes" when he was 19 (and perf...

I have had a harder time getting this review posted than makes any sense, probably reinforcing that taking a break is in order. For now, t...

Shocking confession time: I sometimes wish that I had not managed sports in high school. Okay, that is probably only shocking for people w...

Getting close to two years ago now, I exchanged "I love you"s with someone. Sometimes in literature that is called reaching an und...

I have one more new book and two re-reads and some exercises pending, so I didn't think I was going to write about mental and emotional ...

On March 11th my friend Karen took me to see the Bowie Alumni Tour at McMenamin's Crystal Ballroom. I had not known such a thing exist...

I haven't been very regular in my posting lately. I know. The virus has made things considerably worse for my situation. It doesn'...

I guess I have sort of a trilogy here. Wednesday I wrote about people being horrible (and dumb) to each other - especially in stressful ti...

The obvious follow-up to yesterday's post would be to focus the director spotlight on John Singleton, but after two failed attempts to r...