Brittle Road
Tuesday, January 29, 2019

Keeping It Operational and Sobbing Without Reason

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I would hate to lose what little decent writing I might have left here on this blog, so I post very occasionally on the chance that, by so d...
Thursday, September 4, 2014

Dark Night of the Soul Redux

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I wrote about it  four years ago.  I stumbled on to the post tonight (really is early morning, it now being about 4:30 AM) and read it, alon...
Monday, June 9, 2014

Shards of Civility

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Six days after the Boston Marathon bombing, I wrote (under a different name) a piece expressing my concerns about the manner in which the s...
Monday, September 23, 2013

Toying with the Internet

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It has been a year since I abandoned this blog in favor of a new one.  I had aspirations, I did!  My new blog would coincide with a new me. ...
Sunday, September 16, 2012

You can't hide. Maybe.

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I could see it coming, months ago.  The energy I once had for this blog was waning.  The time to take a hiatus was upon me.  I kept posting,...
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Saturday, September 8, 2012

All Talk

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I keep coming back to it:  I find religion in general and churches in particular repugnant in many ways, but I admire and appreciate the abi...
Saturday, September 1, 2012

Measures of My Mental Mediocrity

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There are times when writing is therapy.  Unfortunately, I have not had therapy for quite some time.  Writing, what little I do, has become ...
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Thursday, August 30, 2012

Pockets of Wonder

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Last night's dream, the parts I remember, was strange and disturbing.  I awoke just after a woman's entire arm, up the the shoulder,...
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Wednesday, August 29, 2012

Walking for Beer

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Despite having missed a number of walking days in August, and thanks to going well over my 100-mile-minimum in July, I remain on target to r...
Sunday, August 26, 2012

Listening to the Emerging Morning

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For the second morning in a row, I awoke late, though this morning I was up before 5:30.  Yesterday, it was after 6:00 before I got out of b...
Saturday, August 25, 2012

Freecycle.com

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Several years ago, my late sister mentioned freecycle.com to me, praising it as a great service for people who have items to give away and f...

Moment of Terror

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This is a photo of our back patio. This is where, this morning, a very small rabbit startled me by darting out from the bushes just under ...
Friday, August 24, 2012

Ancient Eyes

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I walked again this morning, just a tad more than 4.6 miles.  I fumbled with my keys for what seemed like a full minute as I felt my way in ...
Thursday, August 23, 2012

Food Freak

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I had planned on going to lunch with a friend yesterday, to a place called Flying Saucer .   Flying Saucer is a beer emporium, a place wher...
Wednesday, August 22, 2012

The Death of Creativity

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These last two, and now three, days my right ankle has been sufficiently angry at me to prevent me from talking my usual morning walks.  Ins...
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Tuesday, August 21, 2012

Bait--for later use

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I used the chihuahua as bait. In my neighborhood, where muscle-bound tattooed guys wearing wife-beaters strutted with their spike-collared...
Monday, August 20, 2012

Snapshots--8/20/2012

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At the very moment he realized the finite store of available cash was shrinking more quickly than the time available to spend it, he absorbe...
Friday, May 18, 2012

No Reason to Expect More

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It has been more than six months since my sabbatical began.  My plans to live the life of a vagabond have been largely derailed by, first, t...
Monday, May 14, 2012

Enlightenment of Another Kind

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Early one recent morning, just before 9:00 am, I attained a certain level of enlightenment. It may be transitory, like so many epiphanies ...
Tuesday, March 27, 2012

Money Pit

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The money pit continues to consume my savings and my patience. UckingFay OuseHay.
Saturday, March 24, 2012

Not What I Planned...But...

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I've been walking quite a bit during the last couple of weeks. A couple of miles or more most mornings and the occasional midday walk h...
Saturday, March 17, 2012

Spring

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I can feel summer coming on. If it were within my power, I would put the brakes on that nasty progression, as summer in Dallas can be overw...
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Thursday, March 8, 2012

Remembering

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My wife has been helping her sister cope with the immediate challenges of widowhood for almost three weeks. I returned home after just a we...
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Saturday, February 25, 2012

Muscle Memory

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Yesterday, while my wife and sister-in-law and I were having lunch at a seafood restaurant just up the road from my sister-in-law's hous...
Friday, February 24, 2012

Private Grief

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The past several days have made me reconsider all the posts I make on Facebook. This week, the grief my sister-in-law is dealing with shoul...
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Saturday, February 18, 2012

A Death in the Family

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My brother-in-law, John, died today. It was utterly unexpected; a complete shock. At this point, I don't know the cause, at least not ...
Monday, February 13, 2012

A Heartfelt Tribute to Valentine's Day

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Valentine's Day post redux. Just read the post from last year . I'm a romantic, really. But that's not what Valentine's Da...
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Sunday, February 12, 2012

A Few Chapters

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I woke up this morning a few minutes before 4:00 a.m. Most of the time when I awaken so early, I look at the clock and roll over and go bac...
Saturday, February 11, 2012

News

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I learned tonight that a cousin, who is considerably older than I am, has breast cancer. Some time ago she decided that, if she were ever d...
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Friday, February 10, 2012

Sand

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I suppose it's possible that we're all living lives of mass hysteria. Nothing is real. It's all imagined. The daily drudgery,...
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