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social games, four
What did you want this year …but not get? It was something ineffable. Because all I really wanted this year was some kind of reassurance, clinging to the frosty winter air, that the raw stupid of modern society might be waning, that people have started to see through the fog of misinformation and impending societal
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who cares
Explain a valuable life lesson you learned in 2025. No one cares. Hold up. Wait. Listen. Whoa: I don’t mean that in a sad-sack, pity me kind of way. What I mean is that figuring out some perspective on the attention of others is actually, factually something that has taken me decades to put into
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forty nine
Describe your 2025 in terms of fitness, health, mind and body. Healing. There was a time when, privacy be damned, I’d disclose and lament any and all of my personal ailments on a blog like this… but needless to say those days are gone. It’s enough for you to know that I am now in
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poetic war
Describe your 2025 in politics, culture, and the universe? No. Ugh. Ok. I’ll bite …a little bit, for the blog. I was doing a little experiment the other week. I had a perfectly good reason to post a pointless video clip on social media the other day, but I didn’t want to use my main
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these things are
What object will forever remind you of 2025? One object? No. How about ten objects from the past year. Memories are not so simple these days. In no particular order… The Kobo eReader I bought mid-year to replace my aging Kindle marked a defiantly buy-Canadian shift away from giving all my money to American billionaires,