by aaron | May 27, 2025 | blog, Essays, not-fiction
Yesterday we began, then ended up, here: If you must begin somewhere, this will do. Today we introduce the pruning shears: If you must begin somewhere You must begin somewhere You must begin The must becomes musty, but let’s ignore that for now. instead, let’s...
by aaron | May 26, 2025 | blog, Essays
If you must begin somewhere, this will do. The If is telling. Already questioning your own premises, or, worse, purposes. The You vacillates. Like a fish in a stream splaying prisms. Prisming prisms? The second-person refracted in prisms (to stick with the...
by aaron | Feb 22, 2025 | blog
Throughout my 20s and 30s I didn’t have the typical Friday night experience of going out to a bar or restaurant. Most Fridays I worked, usually at a bar or restaurant, which is a unique way both to participate in and be excluded from a typical Friday night. Working...
by aaron | Feb 14, 2025 | blog
Sometimes life hits you with certain thematic consistencies. These could be dreams or conversational topics, the smell of freshly baked peanut butter cookies or the way light slants through a window. At a certain point you notice the recurrences and begin tuning...
by aaron | Feb 1, 2025 | blog, Essays, not-fiction
At the grocery store earlier today I noticed that egg prices have risen to $7.84 for a dozen Grade A eggs. This price reflects plain old white eggs, not the fancy organic kind, although I live on the West Coast and all eggs must be cage free, which raises the price...
by aaron | Jan 23, 2025 | blog, Essays, not-fiction
During his inauguration speech this past Tuesday our new President spoke once again about reversing America’s decline, again. This confused me, as I was fairly certain he’d already Made America Great Again, during what I think of as the First Again, 2016—2020....