Summer’s winding down, and I’ve still had zero luck on finding another job. I’ve applied for countless jobs only for these companies to reward me with ice-cold radio silence or …
Notes from the Road, #19: Life Lessons
Notes from the road
Notes from the Road, #18: Job Hunt
It’s a mid-summer evening, and the job hunt’s going nowhere. I found my portable radio and turned it to the AM station for the live broadcast from the baseball stadium. …
Notes from the Road, #17: Weight Loss
The other day I got a Lyft to run some errands at one of the public works offices in town. It had been awhile since I got a Lyft, and …
Notes from the Road, #16
[Content Note: Today’s post deals with a difficult topic, specifically long-term care and end-of-life issues. If you need to give this post a miss for whatever reason, definitely do so. …
Notes from the Road, 15
Nothing’s left in that house but me and 15 years’ worth of memories of what used to be. I had propped the windows open with those glass pop bottles to …
Notes from the Road, 14
It’s moving day. We just got the go-ahead to start moving in, and I’m doing the first phase late in the day and into the night, since the cleaner was …
Notes from the Road, #12
The weather’s finally starting to warm up on my run to the store. My family member’s hospital stay totally threw off my sleep schedule, or should I say, what passes …
Notes from the Road, #11
It’s so cold out here. This place is now basically what a tundra on steroids wants to be when it grows up. I’m so sick of it, and it feels …
Notes from the Road, #10
It’s the middle of the night, and we’re having a bout of arctic winds roaring in from Northern Canada. It’s dark, the neighborhood’s a ghost town, and the only places …
Notes from the Road, #8
The last bus due out here left two hours ago. It’s far too easy to get sidetracked at the Wally World, and since service ends early on Sundays, I came …