The Mystery Spot

It’s been just over a month since I got the guitar. I’ve tried to play it about half an hour each day, plugged in or not, except when we wer...

My Stepfather came to town for an all too brief visit over the weekend. He brought a few of my old records with him, and an old case of 45...

The worst part of getting a colonoscopy is the preparation. The items you have to ingest to clear the system, and in a competitive eating ti...

After too many nights of interrupted sleep caused by my son not sleeping through the night we've decided to try something new. When he w...

If I insist my son eat, sleep, use the toilet and try to communicate with the world in a meaningful manner I have to be nothing less than a ...

Yesterday I went in for my first eye exam in three years. This one went better than last time, when I had an ultrasound done on my right eye...

Resolutions really are not my thing, they lead to disappointment. Sure, I'd like to drop 30-40 pounds, live a more authentic life that i...

Working on various projects, including the Arts Festival, is taking up some creative time. Wish I was not so distracted and unfocused. A pie...

My son was generous enough to give me whatever sickness had been inside of him last weekend and that left me waking up this morning and deci...

My son is just over a week into an intense feeding program in the city. He has three daily sessions, one at 8AM, 11AM and 3PM, five days a w...

After last week's walk, where I neglected to see the statue of a certain Austrian bodybuilder, I vowed to correct the omission as soon ...

I live in a city, yet am on the west side of downtown and rarely go there. My blood pressure is stupidly high and needs to drop, along with ...

Been battling vertigo again this weekend. Same damn thing I had a couple of years ago, left me out of commission yesterday. I was able to g...

My son underwent an endoscopy of his GI tract today to determine if there was anything physically wrong that may be preventing him from want...

My feature to help raise funds for the Writers' Block Poetry Slam Team went well yesterday. I'm out of shape on stage as well as off...

All of the busy, and the sleep deprivation caught up with me at a workshop this morning when a cluster headache decided to throw a party beh...

I'm writing this from a hotel room in Bohemia, New York. My parents felt bad that I was sleeping on the couch for two nights so they use...

"How can you laugh when these terrible things are happening around you?" I was asked at work a few days ago. "Well it's...

It was the day reservations for a road trip in July came through, details were worked out seamlessly - I made a Facebook comment about wait...

There's been a lot of activity with and around me the past week. Some of the busy has been positive and beneficial, some has been stress...