From the Table
This leaf found its way here (I like the textures together). The sun did the same (I like the lines).
Avocados
If We buy avocados that are not quite ripe, We set them in the sun. To speed ripen them. This one caught My eye so I did a bit more with it. Also, I love shooting on this little bistro table in the summer. It’s so weathered it always comes out black and white. Something about these photos still seems a bit off to Me, but I wanted to let them be. No filters, no editing. Nothing but the photo.
Already Left for a Bit
So, I wrote this a month ago intending to post it and explain the silence. I procrastinated so much that it’s just now going up. I view four weeks of procrastination as an accomplishment. Over the last six months, I’ve spread Myself thin. If it weren’t for My midsection, I’d be thin in every aspect. Outside of work (a thinly spread challenge all its own at the moment) I’ve started so many projects for myself that I can’t even keep track. This blog has been going for three years now, I think, and it is one of those projects. There [...]
Could Mario be my brother?
This month He’ll turn 8, a significant milestone for the pre-10s (like the 18 of single digits, maybe?), and on that day I will have been in His life for 82 months, or 6 5/6 years. But He still doesn’t know that there was ever a time during which I wasn’t His dad, because We haven’t told him. Pause. Let Me save you a bit of time: Yes, We’re awful people. And We’ve now destroyed everything. And He’ll need therapy. And We’re failing parents. And I’m a bastard. And She’s an awful mother. And We really screwed up. And Springer [...]
Searching for the Perfect Melt
Every time I’m home for lunch and have an extra minute, I make a tuna melt. I love tuna melts and I’m not ashamed to admit it. Wheat bread, Tuna (very easy on the mayo), sharp cheddar, tomato, dill (if available). The best lunch possible. But I have yet to perfect it. It’s overdone, underdone, under crispy, over melty. One side is toasted, one side is not. I can’t seem to do it. So this is a request for advice: How do I make the perfect melt? Read: cheese is just melted, bread is lightly browned on both sides, tuna [...]
Three Things I’ll Never Be Able to Do
I may have mentioned one of these in the past, in passing, but it’s time to come clean. Flat out. 1. Make a Mix Tape/CD/Playlist This will never happen successfully. I love music. It’s a huge part of My life and I both respect and appreciate a well composed list of tracks. But I can’t make a well composed list. For anything. Workout, chill out, space out, commute, work, write. It doesn’t matter what the desired venue of such a mix would be. I can’t assemble one. I had a radio show in college. Not sure what I was thinking, [...]