Captian's Log Dreams or Memories 7 Jul 20231 Jul 2023 I don't know where I was. Maybe it's just a dream. It felt industrial. Big, empty places, like it could have been a warehouse. There was a boiler. I remember…
Captian's Log 2023: Fourth of July 4 Jul 20231 Jul 2023 Happy Fourth of July. I've been thinking about RFK Jr.'s recent rise. Besides his vaccine opposition and criticism of "big pharma," positions for which I have sympathy, I find I'm…
Captian's Log Fevered Rambling 2 Jul 20231 Jul 2023 I'm fighting a fever, and I never know if I'm in my right mind. I know, for a brief moment, when I wake up, when clarity breaks through the haze,…
Captian's Log Limits of my Art 30 Jun 202324 Jun 2023 I sometimes wish I was a painter or sculptor, that I had learned how to make pictures, because sometimes I see images in my head so clearly, so viscerally, images…
Captian's Log 2023: Dobbs 24 Jun 2023 Today is the first anniversary of the Dobbs decision, and I'm wondering how many children are turning one today as well on account of it. How many babies are crying…
Captian's Log Hell to Pay 21 Jun 202310 Jun 2023 It's like a fire in my head: one cannot fight all that is said. The truth, once stated, there it ends, but lies go on after truth mends. At some…
Captian's Log All Men Die 19 Jun 202317 Jun 2023 They told me once a man had died,and strange it seemed to me:to speak of man's to speak of deaththough from death all men flee. They told me then how…
Captian's Log On the Death of My Uncle at the End of a Slow Suicide 18 Jun 202317 Jun 2023 Please God, he was only ever good to me. I know, I cannot help but know it, what sort of man he was. But is there not some hope for…
Captian's Log 2023: Memorial Day 29 May 2023 Today we thank the fallen men who of the stars and stripes are listed in the colors three as red. No other types affect affections as these do who bled…
Captian's Log Companion 28 May 202326 May 2023 The difference between a good enemy and a good friend is vague at times. Death is both the dragon and the lady, it seems; something to conquer, and something that…
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