Sensory Dispensary
“The record you didn’t know you needed is what I am listening to in the other room.”
“The record you didn’t know you needed is what I am listening to in the other room.”
I have always been a naturally curious person with a voracious appetite to learn new things. With the onset of AI being a part of everything, of course I was intrigued and wanted to learn about and understand what it was capable of. I have…
When I was molested by my brother as a child, I was shattered into pieces before I was even done putting myself together. I have spent the last 52 years using those shattered pieces to try to complete myself. There is a Japanese art called…
With the passing of the wonderful Dolly Parton a few days ago, the world got a little dimmer. We all know about the millions of books she sent to children each year, and there are undoubtedly hundreds of other examples of her philanthropy that we…
The one about Insurance math, word problems, hepatologists, and, um, the availability of pharmaceuticals using alternate distribution methods…
I spent most of my day making changes to the blog. I reordered the sections on the home page, adjusted the width of the sections to be more consistent, and gave the Long Players section some featured posts. I also turned the little category pills…
For the last month or so I have been asking myself a single, simple question before I do something. I ask myself “why am I doing this?” Sometimes the answer is obvious, I do some things because I need to do them. I need to…
Yesterday in my random song share I wrote a little about how I have dropped the burdens I have been carrying and the parts of me and my life that no longer suit me. Today I have been thinking about the things that I have…
It’s been almost a month since I posted here. It feels like longer than that. I didn’t really mean to take time off, it wasn’t a conscious decision or choice, but I guess there were reasons. Here are some of them: This is the first…
With all that has been happening here with the site redesign (watch for Update #2) and personally (watch for Update #3), I have neglected to keep you all updated on the status of our GoFundMe which I previously discussed here, and that is bad of…
Gina and I are currenty watching Homicide: Life on the Street and the episode we saw the other night has thrown me for a bit of a loop. In an earlier episode this season, Detective Bayliss (Kyle Secor) shares with his partner Frank Pembleton (played…
One of the things I frequently notice on TV is that when a main character gets diagnosed with cancer, one of two things happen, they either sadly pass away, or they miraculously go through their treatments and then their life returns to normal, like they…
Gina shared this with me yesterday and it is a spot on set of examples of how the combination of anxiety and depression can cause a state of dissonance for the affected person, who in this case is me. Having anxiety and depression is like…
I very recently got a large envelope of legal documents in the mail from the newly appointed trustee for my mom’s trust. This person also has power of attorney for all of her affairs, in addition to being the named executor of her estate. He…
I had some interesting visitors to the site the other day from the town of Romeoville. Felt like an occasion worthy of a new playlist: Welcome Romeoville! They looked through a lot of shit, paged through the archives, and clicked on a peculiar assortment of…
Back in 2013, I was invited by a friend and colleague to be a part of a closed Facebook writing group. The format was simple: a short phrase each week that had to be incorporated into a new original piece inspired by it. There were…
