Part the Last Thank you! Thank you! Thank you and f$%k you. ~ Denis Leary Ha Ha Haaaa!

Part Two If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee. ~ Abraham Lincoln You know what we’re trying to do here. 10:30pm. Let’s discuss Franz Kafka’s journals; hard as they are to understand, and the many abnormalities which they bring to light about the Read more about The Night of Three Posts[…]

Part One “Failure only becomes real when you accept it.” ~ some dude running a pyramid scheme Now that it is no longer an option, I have decided that I won’t be posting once a week for these past three weeks. Instead, I will simply write and post three articles of a thorough and elegant Read more about The Night of Three Posts[…]

An art outdated, overlooked, and generally abhorred in today’s emojis. Much to my chagrin, I’ve found letter writing to be problem of many layers. At the present time, the world’s primary method of communique is through texting, twitter, and their ilk. The problem with social media is that we can’t seem to make real human Read more about The Art of Writing a Letter[…]

*if this is the first post you’re seeing, in which I return to writing after months of silence, please feel free to assume that this is the first You see? That’s the great thing about time. It passes whether you use it or not. Father Time doesn’t need me. He is a strong, confident barista! Read more about And Time Flies On[…]

I’ve now quit on this blog three times. Counting once before I even began. You might say I’m something of an authority on the subject. However, as a wise young man once said, “As long as I come back, it doesn’t count as leaving!” Now I am back. And for most of you (the many, Read more about Time Flies When You’re Slacking[…]

Congratulate me! Not only have I begun my next book. But a person, somewhere in the United States, has bought my first book. But there’s more, there’s more! I have, additionally, figured out how to add “throwback posts” without actually writing extra. I’m writing a fun guidebook to motorbiking Vietnam, from Hanoi to Saigon (HCMC). Read more about New Book, Viet Vodka, and Tricky Mechanics[…]

You ever have a problem that seemed trivial? But then appears to expand? Starting with that one small issue, and the other thing, and some other stuff; until it’s out of hand or royally irritating? Last week, I had such a problem. Specifically my NZ outlet adapter and the fact that it wasn’t in my Read more about Taking A Break… In a Former Soviet State[…]

As one student of writing to… whoever might be listening. I’d like to go over something that has held residence in my skull for the past week or so. And in “explaining” it, perhaps it will come clearer for me. So here it is. Often, when writing, we find ourselves trying excruciatingly hard to paint Read more about Pulling the Strings[…]

Alps2Ocean starts at the White Horse Campsite in the forbidding presence of Mount Cook. Rolling out on the wet wind of an alpine snow/rain storm ending on the salty breeze of Holmes Wharf in Oamaru. Between start and stop the trail covers over 300km and passes through several of New Zealand’s many worlds. I made Read more about Fun at the Office[…]