by aaron | May 29, 2025 | blog, Essays, not-fiction
The following was written in Part ii of this increasingly aimless accretion: Why must you begin? Because you must. As mentioned in that same post, must is a musty way of thinking. So let’s hit it with the power washer and see what, if anything, remains...
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 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....
by aaron | Jan 1, 2025 | blog, not-fiction, Scribbles&Scraps
The human eraser had long, thin legs and a squishy rubber head. He groomed his beard every morning but could never entirely remove the castaway crumbs of yesterday’s rubbings. He hewed strongly to principles of Leave No Trace. It was impossible to leave no trace, but...