Reflections on Aging #1

Reflections on Aging #1

by | Sep 25, 2022 | Typed Rants

An ADHD fueled ramble of no particular direction. So … let’s time travel. I quit smoking about 4 years ago. Not easy, and not the first time I’d quit, either. Just the one that seems to have stuck. I started smoking when I was 12 years old. In the early 80’s, there...
Reflections on Aging #1

Reset, Redux

by | Aug 22, 2022 | Typed Rants

Going to try this again, once more, with feeling It’s ridiculous how my internal dialogue sounds. Fantasy. Over the course of my life, I’ve done a lot of things; started a lot more things. I’ve been a bouncer, a bartender, a bodyguard, a barista, a sales monkey, an...
Reflections on Aging #1

49

by | Jul 31, 2022 | Typed Rants

Getting a little old, and the issues of oldsters I’m not old, but I’m old. I turn 50 this year. I’ve been forcibly aged out of two professions already in my life, and it’s those pesky kids coming along with their fresh degrees and willingness to work for next to...
Reflections on Aging #1

Father’s Day

by | Jun 19, 2022 | Typed Rants

Regret. I’m not great at this sort of thing. Kids are complicated. Each one is their own special flavor of messed up, and there’s a great chance, as their parent, that a lot of it is your fault. I’ve got three kids, with three separate and...
Reflections on Aging #1

Maintaining Anger & Outrage

by | May 20, 2022 | Typed Rants

Whether it’s the Right’s attacks on the LGBT community and/or their ever present war on women and/or their regressing from intellectual enlightenment, I find I’m angry a lot of time. Recently, there’s been a deluge of libertarian memes spilling out on my social media,...
Reflections on Aging #1

Not My Day

by | Apr 1, 2022 | Typed Rants

Yesterday had nothing to do with me, yet it was a very, very important day to me. Even though it’s got nothing to do with me, it has to do with people, one especially, that I love and care about. Trans folk are under attack, and trans kids are under especially...