Calamari

I don’t like cala­mari. It’s not a big deal, but it’s emphat­ic. I real­ly don’t like the stuff. It’s rub­bery and unpleas­ant in the mouth and it tastes like dead fish. So I don’t like cala­mari.  I’m sur­round­ed by peo­ple who loooove cala­mari so I can’t fig­ure out why I don’t. And every five or … 

Thoughts on Arrivals

We’re final­ly in Mexico after an overnight delay caused by not hav­ing a flight atten­dant.  So I have to ask — is this real­ly vis­it­ing a for­eign coun­try? When the first thing that you do after the inevitable post-flight-hangover nap is walk down the block to the gro­cery store to buy pro­vi­sions? When you can … 

Why Morning Linkage Died and What’s Next for ShinyMagpie

Short ver­sion.  A switch from cura­tion to cre­ation. Slightly longer ver­sion. Morning Linkage was  path to find­ing my way back into think­ing about sto­ry telling. It is now time to start telling sto­ries of my own again. There’s an even longer ver­sion but that should prob­a­bly stay between me, my ther­a­pist, and the hap­py band of …