Stone Knives and Bear Skins

We have these wonderful technologies that can pull us together. But they don’t in the least. I thought, thirty years ago, that this is what we’d do as […]

Friday. Well, it’s Thursday. I’m lucky enough in America to be able to take days off. I remember jobs I couldn’t do that. I remember jobs where I’d […]

As I mentioned, I was jogging three solid miles every other day and commuting so unabatedly by motorcycle that I’d put my beautiful black, but largely unused Mazda […]

I’m in a mood. Frankly, I want to go out drinking and smoking. I’m tired. Tired of the bullshit. And if I could take the week off I […]

Despite my questionable experience with my allergist, I still had a high opinion of doctors when I moved to Portland in 2000. These were people who’d dedicated their […]

I wandered last month, conversations about loneliness. No doubt, I have more, but not this month. I thought I’d try doing something I haven’t done in the past, […]

There were signs. On the 8mm films I’m present in I’m 3, 4, or 5 years old. I seem happy, I’m smiling, and I’m bouncing around, but I […]

I’ve always struggled, at least as an adult, with having a consistent schedule. Getting up at the same time every day? Good luck. Getting to sleep at the […]

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 […]