Captian's Log It’s Called, I Do a Little Rambling 23 Feb 202617 Feb 2026 It seems to me there is an opposite version of the euphemism treadmill. Before I was born, my father worked with special needs adults, except, back then, the term special…
Captian's Log Getting Worse 21 Feb 202614 Feb 2026 Is it trauma when everyone is traumatized? I have been trying to understand The Turn of the Screw. Was it technically good? Yes. Frightening? Somewhat. But, I ask myself, what…
Captian's Log Tomorrow Is Lent 17 Feb 2026 What a dearth I have fallen into. Exhaustion has robbed me of so much life. I hate working like this: Always too little rest, always leaning on that desperate energy…
Captian's Log The Last Time? 16 Feb 202614 Feb 2026 Is this my final goodbye? I do not know. Is this just another visit? Who can tell me? When the storm comes, will I be so far away, so very…
Captian's Log When I Shatter 11 Feb 20267 Feb 2026 Too easy to love and too easy to hate,too easy to become what you just can't take. All of these hungers that I just can't sateand I fear every moment…
Captian's Log Classic Blunders 9 Feb 20267 Feb 2026 "You have really thought about this," is an argument I have not been able to defeat. Twice, now, it has been used, by women, to disprove my argument. You see,…
Captian's Log Teadia 7 Feb 202631 Jan 2026 Between the here and now and what will be, there is something more than we understand. As things stand, there is about a ten minute walk between the parking lot…
Captian's Log For Charon 2 Feb 202631 Jan 2026 A bird was dead. Its little body lay upon the pavement. Shot, I think; its breast a dark well of frozen blood. The ground is frozen too; even at noon,…
Captian's Log Deliver Us From Evil 25 Jan 202620 Jan 2026 What a horror haunted night I've spent. I speak of no nightmares nor bad dreams. I lay awake, hour upon hour passing, turning and tossing and begging God for relief.…
Captian's Log Cassilda’s Song 18 Jan 202610 Jan 2026 "Song of my soul, my voice is dead," sings Cassilda, and I feel those words. So much time has been lost, weeks now, to this sickness. I cannot write, cannot…
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