Captian's Log Normie! 21 Apr 202618 Apr 2026 I don't know if you've ever seen the movie Plan 9 From Outer Space. It's one of those rare exceptions where a bad movie becomes entertainingly bad. Smarter, better versed…
Captian's Log Happy Ninth Birthday, Tale Told 15 Apr 202620 Mar 2026 Please enjoy a few posts from this past year. https://tale-told.com/2025/04/01/dancing-with-death/ https://tale-told.com/2025/05/02/interruptions/ https://tale-told.com/2025/06/13/i-think-so-brain-but-if-we-covered-ourselves-in-sackcloth-and-ashes/ https://tale-told.com/2025/07/03/a-postscript/ https://tale-told.com/2025/08/25/a-smile-breaks-across-the-dead-mans-face/ https://tale-told.com/2025/09/18/absalom-absalom/ https://tale-told.com/2025/10/18/out-of-breath/ https://tale-told.com/2025/11/13/for-many-things-i-am-thankful-today/ https://tale-told.com/2025/12/26/if-its-true/ https://tale-told.com/2026/01/13/conversations-with-myself/ https://tale-told.com/2026/02/14/love-nest-and-zombies/ https://tale-told.com/2026/03/20/between-heaven-and-earth/
Captian's Log Rough Draft | An Unfinished Beginning: The Hanged Man 8 Apr 202630 Mar 2026 A Note: A few different influences working here, the most striking was thinking I saw, out of the corner of my eye, a metal sculpture of a man hanging from…
Captian's Log The Next Step 7 Apr 202630 Mar 2026 Through the fog, only a shadow of the next step appears. As I set my foot down, I feel the solid stone-laid path against my sole. There is music, somewhere,…
Captian's Log A Review? An Interview? 1 Apr 2026 I'm excited to announce that While the Elephants Danced has been featured on a website called Ginger Nuts of Horror. I emailed them asking if they'd review my book, and…
Captian's Log Beyond 24 Mar 202618 Mar 2026 Written the morning before returning to work after being sick: Beyond the fever, beyond the dream,beyond death's cold and bitter gleam,beyond the shadows, beyond the night,beyond all this, I see…
Captian's Log Tea 21 Mar 202614 Mar 2026 Home sick on a beautiful day. I want to run and leap in the sun, it's been raining so long, but I can't breathe. A pot of tea, I try…
Captian's Log Life Update: Down the Amazon 18 Mar 202618 Mar 2026 So, my father is not the most tech savvy man in the world, which is a shame. He once was fairly competent re: computers back when floppy disks were a…
Captian's Log Happy St. Patrick’s Day (A Haiku) 17 Mar 2026 Saint Patrick's Day, but—evergreens black under fog—cold so slowly lifts I have caught a cold going around at work. Feeling a little better every day. Read an article on Substack…
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…