Another Origin Story
This post is basically the next chapter of the story that I told in what became my first post on this blog (whose title, appropriately, starts with the words "Of…
Milestone
This week in dubious milestones: Tomorrow, 1/13/21, marks five years to the day since Jen moved out. Back when the post-marriage chapter of my life was only just beginning, when…
Chasing a Chameleon: Post-Mortem of a Marriage (Part II)
(This post picks up where the previous one left off, still on the subject of my efforts, in the years following Jen's and my divorce, to grapple with her claim…
Chasing a Chameleon: Post-Mortem of a Marriage (Part I)
This post is something that I've needed to get off my chest for a while. Its subject is something that I spent roughly three years wrestling with before finally, earlier…
Forgiveness is Optional
It should surprise no one for me to say that, since my marriage fell apart, I've been angry at Jen for giving up on it, blowing up our lives, and…
Interesting Dream
Last night was a night of troubled dreams for me. Most of it is vague and indistinct, but one dream stands out clearly. It was, sort of, a dream about…
Music, and Memories, and—Moving On? (Journalings About Recent Experiences/Feelings)
In recent weeks, I’ve experienced numerous little moments of intense emotion, where the emotions in question are simultaneously joyful and profoundly, despairingly sad. And I’ve wanted to talk about these…
Some General Reflections On My Grand Canyon Trip
There will be more day-by-day type posts to come, with pictures and details about my doings out here. This post, though, is not that sort of post. The Grand Canyon…
Looking Backward On the First Day of My Grand Canyon Trip
I didn’t really talk much about this to a lot of people, so if you’re reading this, you may well not know that for the first day of my Grand…
Of Beginnings, and a Fateful October Evening Long Ago
This piece was written in February of 2018, about two and a half years before I started this blog (and about two years into my post-marriage life, although just one…