The End is Year

2025. Those of us striving to maintain the good, the true, the beautiful, and our precious homeland felt a hard-to-name force displacing us from the “past, people, place, and prayer” (Kingsnorth).

2024: “Don’t You Care?”

What do we talk about when we talk about apocalypse?

The Advent of One Day at a Time

“But I didn’t know if they could help me or not. Part of me wanted help. But there was another part.”

Jake’s Midnight Dust Up

The last day of 2017 found Jake alone in the empty house. The movers had come and gone. Earlier that day Jake sent his wife Rachel off with their two kids to their new home in another state. Jake stayed behind to clean up the house for the new owners. The house belonged to them…

I’ve Been Happy in 2016. Happy New Year 2017

Let’s Face the New Year Together…

…the New Improved Year… …as conceived in a recent skin care product mailer… …Empowered, Replenished, Renewed, Fortified… …Refreshing and Refining… ….Diminish the signs of aging… ….Dewy, healthy-looking finish… …Flawless skin… …

2014 End Notes, Part Two: “Well, I Will Remember. Must Scold, Must Nag, Mustn’t Be Too Pretty in the Mornings.”

I’m Getting Over Sentimental, And You?

As we head into the New Year let’s take a moment to not look back… Sentimentality is that taskmaster which keeps us longing for the leeks and garlic of Egypt, the known-knowns of past life, up to and including slavery. Sentimentality is gate keeper to the past, fending off reality to preserve sugar-plum memories. Sentimentality…