What is a detox? I always though the term detox was one of those bullshit terms that don’t mean anything. And if I’m honest, I still feel that way. What the hell is detox? Detoxification. But from what? I suppose, I can say it’s all a detox from the boozeContinue Reading
On the second day away from the restaurant, I threw myself a party. It was an intimate party, but we all ate and drank too much. I thought about all the parties over the years. Christmas 2004 came to mind. So did the idea of friendship. There have been friendsContinue Reading
While walking home last night, I grew incredibly sad. It would seem okay to be sad coming off a last day at work. It was after all these years, my last restaurant shift. I’ve heard it said that leaving a job gives most people a level of depression, which IContinue Reading
Once upon a time, 7,670 days ago, in Denver, I took one fork in the path. This particular path did not seem any brighter or rosier or better than the other path, it was just the path that I took. It was the tenth of February. It was 2001. IContinue Reading
I’ve been thinking about Haley a great deal these last couple of days. Haley, just Haley. There are only two thing I remember about her: she was six foot four and she was named Haley because she was born in 1986 when Haley’s Comet came around. Of course, in 1986,Continue Reading
It may have started in 1984, at the age of 11. It probably started a few years later, fall of 1986. I was 14. I had written a short story. I was growing up and I was more and more withdrawn everyday. It may have been during that Thanksgiving breakContinue Reading
I don’t have anything more to say than I have said already. This post is the 519th post of this blog’s existence. It has been a weekly, or nearly a weekly endeavor, since April of 2010. Even though I had started my blogger account the October before, I had nothingContinue Reading
For the decade 2009-2019, I worked as editor of Umbrella Factory Magazine which was an online literary magazine. I was very active as a writer during this time as well. I chose to submit my work to online journals since that was the community in which I worked. I hadContinue Reading
It should be no surprise that I would be involved with a project with a title like “The ILacqua Experiment.” It was something that my wife, Janice, wanted to do. It began on a chilly November day in 2015 in a cold coffeehouse in our town of Longmont, Colorado. OurContinue Reading
The Sophia Ballou Project ran from May of 2010 until April of 2014. I joined the project in January of 2011 and I remained a contributor until the end. It was just over three years I got the opportunity to be a part of that project and all the wonderfulContinue Reading