The Hellish Handbasket

Another year plods to a close. How do individual moments seem to drag when days, months, and years speed by so fast? The moments of 2022 ble...

Remember when Alice fell down the rabbit hole, and she fell for such a long time, she got bored and fell asleep? The lesson of that story is...

I am compelled to evaluate everything. I come by it naturally. My ancestors survived by constantly evaluating their environment for threats....

The question of the day: What is success? Go ahead, take your time. I'll let you ponder the question for a minute. It's not a trick ...

As I was shuffling along the bike path by the dry Rillito River riverbed, I came to a realization that has helped me put another piece of th...

Howdy Blogbots. I'm happy to announce, my glitchy heart keeps chugging along, dragging the rest of me with it. I guess I follow where th...

If I could sum up my primary problem in one sentence, it would be this: I can't stop trying to make sense. Sense of my life, sense of ot...

I don't have much to say tonight. I don't have time, either. It's crunch time for my Spanish dissertator. In any case, when work...

I'm delinquent again on posting my weekly blogpost. My apologies to my five readers. I noticed I have written 606 blogposts. Jiminy cric...

Howdy Blogbots. Sorry to keep you waiting. I usually post on Sunday evenings, but last night I had a deadline on a work project. I'm try...

I sense some sort of adventure is lurking over the horizon. Right now, I'm too tired to chase it, but I think it is close by. I hope onc...

I'm listening to some old Pablo Cruise on YouTube while I undertake another round of Swedish death cleaning. Today I packed up my collec...

How many times over the past couple years have I said "my heart is broken"? Haven't you? More times than we can count, probabl...

  I have an ongoing quest to lighten my load. To that end, I have offloaded more kitchen stuff to my housemate. This trailer easily absorbed...

Do I exist? I'm beginning to doubt my identity. Google certainly does, and I'm pretty sure Google runs the world, so it's no won...

I finally did it. After two-plus years, I initiated the firing sequence (two negative Covid self-tests) and launched myself back into commun...

I’m embarrassed to report, life is looking up for the Chronic Malcontent. Thanks, I'm happy, too. It’s a healthy indicator of my mental ...

Somewhere between last week and this week, I got fed up with suffering and decided to stop. I gave up bemoaning the vertigo. Instead, I'...

I don't have much to report this week. Here's a quick follow-up to the ENT appointment from last week. I know you are following the ...

It has become very clear to me that my inner ears march to the unseen unheard drumbeat of fluctuations in air pressure. I am a creature of t...