“How do you do that?” Brian gestured toward my shaved head. “I’m decrypting this with the public key the vendors sent us.” “No, I mean, how do you shave your head?” Brian was losing hair…
When the wife of a guy from the infrastructure team committed suicide, the IT Department rallied around their colleague. On the day of the funeral, the IT Department shut down. No explanations. No exceptions. It…
“God doesn’t give you more than you can handle.” I’ve heard that many times. It’s venomous. It’s a sugar-coated and harmful lie. Some who suffer even believe it, cling to it, and therein lies the…
Imagine sneezing, and splattering someone with your phlegm, intentionally. That image lives within the realm of cringe. You wouldn’t even walk over to the couple at the far end of the restaurant, and take a…
Matted blonde hair was still damp from the drizzle earlier. Her partner once approached me when I purchased a burger, and I got two more for them. Maybe she didn’t recognize me, or rather adhered…
Don’t show your monsters and don’t explain them. Some creators in the horror genre live by those rules. Well, yeah, at some point in the movie you have to show something, but initially it makes…
Hope is an illusion, mostly. It isn’t fabricated, and packaged in neat little bite-sized nibbles, floating around for consumption. Hey Joe, didn’t you get retrenched last week? Quick, grab that purple one, it’s flying your…
I watched a live video of a village being destroyed. How do I respond to tragedy, and to the scary things I witness daily? How do I handle it? This question becomes universal, even if…
I remember the immediate aftermath, there on the highway. We got sandwiched between other cars during a mid-morning accident. My wife and I were fine, but our little car wasn’t. The bodywork looked OK-ish from…
You ask, what’s the point? Why carry on, why do people carry on? That is 100% legit, because that’s what you feel. It’s no surprise you aren’t the only one. Experiencing futility, existential angst, among…