Both my LiveJournal entries and those [Weekly] emails capture moments in time, but it’s the replies to the emails that mean so much more to me now. In them, I know that I matter to someone else.
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For Friends’ End Day 2020, James Howarth gifted a Choose Your Own Adventure journey, culminating in one of four gifts. For your enjoyment (without the concluding gifts), here is the Choose Your Own Adventure! (For full CYOA fun, we recommend reading this on a computer, rather than a smartphone. It makes the journey from page […]
Hey James, Well, it’s been about a week and a half since Friends’ End Day. What an incredible weekend that was, full of discovery and creativity and vulnerability. I continue to be grateful for our community of friends who show up for these things we’ve built. And this party in particular wouldn’t be possible if […]
Hey James, John Prine died this week. I won’t claim that it shook me to my core, or that I broke down when I heard the news. It was more like the moment immediately after you get a bad papercut, when you feel some small painful thing, but you know the blood will start to […]
Friday was the day after Halloween, and our bowl of candy sat as full as it had been on Thursday morning. Halloween night had brought only one Trick-or-Treater to our door. I had heard more children outside, families venturing halfway down the dimly lit block to houses nearby, but they avoided ours – or just […]
“Better” by Who You Are, from Who You Are (2008) The first thing that comes to mind,that’s what I am going to share with you. Feel better.Carpe diem.It’s going to be okay. You’ve heard them before,you’ll hear them again.But maybe they’re still worth hearing.
I’m trying out a new writing project. Each day – or as often as I end up doing this – I will listen to one of the 4000+ songs on my iPod and write something about it or inspired by it. It could be a review of the song, a story from my life featuring […]
Hey James, It’s been a few months since either of us posted. You are continuing to send me the pictures of your “This Day in History” drawings, but I’ve failed to post them to this website. Neither of us has written to the other since the beginning of the summer. We had such a nice […]