Month: September 2017

September 23, 2017 Pat

It’s happening again. I can feel it. It’s a phenomenon with which I’m all too familiar. I’m sitting here at Gate A6 in St. Louis Lambert International Airport with my carry-on in tow and a Marry Karr book by my side when a great sense of sadness floods over me. I knew it was coming….

September 15, 2017 Pat

**The following post is part of a much longer piece about my 2014 trip to Italy. It will be a 3 or 4 part series so stay tuned!** It wasn’t until that girl was wrist-deep into my shorts that I even realized I was being pickpocketed. It was nothing like Ocean’s 11 or any of…

September 10, 2017 Pat

I live for fantasy. Not like “ogres, fairies, and dragons” fantasy (although I can get into that too, LOTR anybody?) but the fantasy that I create in the vast and frightening world that is my brain. For as long as I can remember I’ve straddled the make-believe world in my head and the real world….

September 1, 2017 Pat

The other day I was perusing the interwebs, as many of us do to delay being a productive member of society. I was nipple deep into the social media vortex-time-warp-black-hole-can’t-find-my-way-out-where-the-hell-am-I that is the cornerstone of being a human in 2017 when I stumbled upon a video. It was one of those inspirational self-help guru guys…