Transactional interactions are the easiest. Walk into the grocery store. Grab a twenty pound bag of cat food. Plop it on the conveyor. When it’s my turn I […]

Smoking. Drinking. And motorcycling. Those are a handful of the ways I’ve found are easy for me, as an adult, introvert, and an autistic, to engage in social […]

I don’t know when it all started. I mean, it was nearly fifty years ago and I’m only now understanding how being a high functioning rustic person has […]

I’m concerned for the future of America. I have a lot of reasons. But today I want to talk about shortages. Present and future. Health care. COVID pushed […]

I’ve been smoking less. No, I haven’t stopped smoking. But I’ve been smoking significantly less. The real irony is, I can throw on a patch and not smoke […]

Someone in your neighborhood, who’s crashing at a friend’s house, say a guy named Bob, about twenty houses down or a quarter mile away, drives to the mall […]

It’s appointment day. Hurray! Yes, you’ve come to the right place, the kind of place where people with pre-existing conditions that are largely home bound get excited about […]

There’s something extremely calming about installing a new Operating System. At least, that’s what I used to think, before all the health drama, back when my primary machine […]

It used to be easy for me to figure out what to write about. I may have had Lyme, but I had a lot of time on my […]

I honestly didn’t plan to. I was having another perfect (as near as could come under the circumstances) not smoking, chillaxing, reading. I woke up feeling physically rather […]