To any of the remaining stalwarts still sticking around:

I’m (belatedly) evacuating from LiveJournal because of the problematic issues regarding their terms and conditions. Since their servers are located in Russia, LJ content is at least arguably subject to Russian anti-LGBTQ law, which would be plenty enough reason for me to flee after 10+ years; ( Read more... )

2016: The Beginning of The End.

1. What did you do in 2016 that you'd never done before?Many running firsts (5K, 10K, 7:04 mile, etc.). Chewed an entire expired pouch of grape Big League Chew in under ten minutes. (It tasted like merlot.) Passed the United States Marine Corps Physical Fitness Test with a First Class ranking. Screenprinted my own t ( Read more... )

(I started this on New Year’s Eve and got it 90% done, and then just completely dropped the ball. Whoops.)

2015: The Year in Which Energy Is Neither Created Nor Destroyed.

1. What did you do in 2015 that you'd never done before?Became the father of a teenager. Attended a Viennese ball, stayed up all night, and spent the next morning browsing the ( Read more... )

I’m desperately procrastinating when I should be writing something I’m way behind on writing. How desperately? So desperately that I’m updating LiveJournal.

So what’s been happening since the end of April, when I last posted here by successfully completing National Poetry Writing Month by writing thirty poems in thirty days? Well, I can sure as hell ( Read more... )

I’ve never done National Poetry Writing Month before, in large part because I usually don’t notice a month has changed over until at least three or four days in. Today, though, by some miracle I remembered that it’s suddenly and alarmingly April, so I might have a go at this crazy poem-draft-a-day nonsense. I figure, if I even get a single decent ( Read more... )

I’m far too old to like snow anymore. It’s been years since I considered it anything but a hazard and a nuisance, and because I have a house to dig out, it’s also an obligation to get cold and miserable (not the most fun) while exercising heavily for a couple of hours (even less fun) and then being exhausted and achy for ages afterward. Plus, it’s ( Read more... )

My friends feed seems to refuse to acknowledge that today exists.  Anyone else having this problem?  Nothing appearing after Thursday, 1/1. I know things are quiet today, but surely not THAT quiet.

EDIT: Okay, good.  Still a little weirdness, but at least I haven't sailed off the end of the calendar.  Carry on!

Parenthood continues to be awesome.

I thought the days of posting weird snippets of conversations with my kid (e.g. this one or this one or this one, etc.) would be long over by now, but I was wrong: now that she’s twelve, the conversations just take the form of text correspondence. To wit:


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I am filled with regret!
Last night Katie had a trivia thing to go to, so I said I’d hang out with Anya after ballet until Katie got home. Since Anya and I both needed dinner, I figured maybe it would make sense for the two of us to get some takeout, or go out somewhere or something. So I centered Google Maps on Anya’s ballet studio and searched for ( Read more... )

I’ve been gone too long, I think.
Life got too busy and too complicated to write about, and that’s never good, and consequently everything has seemed, at best, semi-real. Sometimes things only feel solid in the fingers once they’ve been set in words, especially given the appalling state of my memory and its continuing steep grade of decline.

I ( Read more... )