The entire genre of "Real America" is predicated upon the rural, urgent, rough, and weird being more...
First Person
Note: Presentation of these texts or “accounts” of “real world” “experience” from the perspective of “individuals” going about “their” “lives” should not be taken to imply an official Ordinary Times position as to the ontological status or scientifically verifiable existence of so-called “ego.”
The opioid crisis has brought a dark and dusty sky upon places like West Virginia, and like...
A moral gerrymandering of my personal Ludditism can become disciplined if I filter that jagged line through...
Grandma’s house was my happy place as a child, as is the case for many people; grandparent...
I know it's never the "fault" of the person responsible for fixing it, so I always try...
Awareness and acceptance: An avalanche of well-meaning words, both from those who take our side, and those...
I would compare having COVID to wading into a bog where you can't see what lurks beneath...
Let me tell you about being owned on Facebook by my mom, and I hope when I'm...
An apocalypse reveals what has been hidden before...and this is very clear when it comes to the...
Let us focus on the labeling and racking and stacking of generational cohort labels against each other,...
There are still too many people of my experience trying to apply their "the system" to today's...
You never know when a new scam might pop up, one she has not heard of, and...
If Pittsburgh is my city of memory, Chicago, rising from the farmlands to west & the lake...
After Baby Face made his edict and went off to find coffee, the four of us had...
This was certainly a memorable occasion for me, but it belongs in a closet full of memorabilia,...
That auditory component, hearing along with seeing, is a big part of why birding is a thing...
Who was going to grab the stupid kid on the traffic signal island first? The military police...
Or, adventures in amateur site maintenance...Using the site had become unpleasant. Someone needs to take the...
I am the hunter right now. The woods are anxious about me. I am the apex predator,...
All death is certain, of course, but a diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease is among the more trying...
