Category Archives: Journal

Once the Town Clerk at the New Haven Hall of Records fishes out the signed deed I placed in their lobby dropbox today and properly files it, I will officially become the sole owner of the house I’ve lived in for the last decade. That I am excited about. I am slightly less excited aboutContinue reading “Quitclaim”

To make use of something, you rarely need to understand how it works, just what it can do for you. To repair something, you do need to understand how it works. Repairing something you have not repaired before involves making mistakes. Mistakes often lead to damage, requiring further repairs, which in turn require even deeperContinue reading “Repair”

Also, coincidentally, the day that my wife and I signed our final divorce agreement. A couple more weeks to go before it is finalized by the courts, but the hard and scary part is done now. We both walked out of it feeling like we can start fresh on coexisting peacefully as parents, while buildingContinue reading “Equinox”

Lately I have been so caught up in tying up loose ends that it has been hard to notice that beautiful new beginnings are cropping up in my life. But it helps to remember that there are indeed newly planted seeds, though they need to winter over before they can break through the soil andContinue reading “Continued”

Jagged rocks towering above, waves rolling below,,Sparks splashing against orbs and oars,,daylight dissolving into night. You’ve been here before,,hands sifting through quicksand dunes,, reaching a far shore without a coin in your purse. I’ve been here, too. I was looking for something I’d lost,, looking for …

Finally taking a week off, for the first time since the pandemic started. Ugh, so long overdue. Looking forward to some rest!

A few weeks ago I stumbled across the Slowly social network. It is about connecting with people from around the world in a deeper way by sending long letters that are delivered with a delay. The farther away you are from someone geographically, the longer it takes for letters to arrive, ranging from a coupleContinue reading “Slowly”