I saw an inane “copy and paste” post floating around a couple of months ago on why some conservative was voting for Trump. I decided to rework each point to reflect the reasoning from a rational American viewpoint rather than a bigoted and partisan one.

I’ve tried to avoid commenting too much on this election, and sorry if this essay is a little rambling, but I just watched the first “debate” between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton and it pretty much confirmed everything I’ve thought about Trump since he declared his candidacy. I’m no Hillary fan-boy, but OMG. [continue…]

We had an office potluck on Friday. Just a sort of autumn kind of social thing that happens in offices that haven’t become dry and impersonal. Not that I’ve ever had to deal with that. No. Of course not. [continue…]

After 16 months as a lay-about, I’m finally employed once again, and completed my first day at the new job today. Before this, I had never been without a job for as much as one day in some 32 years. Unfortunately, I was in the wrong place at the wrong time, and finally got caught in a company-wide layoff. [continue…]

Microscopic bubbles,
A fog upon the glass. [continue…]

Several verses in the style of the old Burma-Shave roadside advertising signs. [continue…]

Several haiku-adjacent verses about the simple things in my life.
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What is it about children that makes a father adore them? [continue…]

I sit alone by her hospital bed —
The others are gone, the prayers have been said —
And look for a time at her ancient face,
The lines writ by years; a facade of lace. [continue…]

I wake to the dark. Twisting around to look at the clock on my nightstand, I slump back, knowing what the night holds in store, and just stare at the ceiling. A ceiling lit by the feeble green glow of the clock and the dim yellow street light that filters through the curtains and the cold Minnesota rain. A sickly, dreary light, entirely appropriate for the hour of the wolf. [continue…]