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So I have issues. I know it, but the difference is I now no longer feel the need to mask them up in some cloud of normalcy.  One of these issues is with guys who cut hair. It’s not right. [...]

I spent what appears to be my final day in the home on Bay tonight. All the walls are bare. All the spaces are quiet. All the rooms are empty with one exception. My Grandma Mayernik’s old [...]

On Sunday, the visiting Missionary Fr. Joe spoke of sacrifice in his homily, and quoted the Gospel of John: “There is no greater love than to lay down one’s life for one’s [...]

We rent stuff. Physical stuff like apartments, stereos, sports cars from Hertz, and wood chippers. These things come and go over a weekend, a month or even a couple years. But what about the [...]

After a discussion with Aaron, my youngest son, about roller coasters he said a peculiar thing… he said “Dad, you are not afraid of anything.” (I wish that were true.) He then [...]

I have lost all track of time. If sleep is currency, I’m overdrawn. 8am comes too fast and I’m again in the grind. In a flash I’m finally eating at 10pm, when I realized lunch [...]

The house is empty. All the windows are bare. Tools are everywhere. There is nothing to deaden the sound. Which causes a really cool thing to happen. When standing in the center of my kitchen the [...]

…that I just don’t posses. I think I’m patient, but really I’m not. I try, but it doesn’t always work out. No other example illustrates this better than the work [...]