“I have known heaven, and now I am in hell, and there are mimes.” ― Nick Harkaway, The Gone-Away World I opened up one eye and squinted as I looked toward the window. Looks like the son was going… Read More ›
Month: January 2025
School Board Glaze Amid Heartbreak
“Virtue was vanity dressed up and waiting for applause.” ― Richard Flanagan, The Narrow Road to the Deep North I try to produce a new Dad Gone Wild piece every Friday. It’s important to have a schedule, but sometimes,… Read More ›
We Got To Do Better
“Death cannot be experienced either by the dead or the living.” ― William T. Vollmann, Rising Up and Rising Down: Some Thoughts on Violence, Freedom and Urgent Means Wednesday morning I was working at home, at my desk. It’d been… Read More ›
Heroes, Hypocrisy, and Hubris
“One of the grimmer realizations of Sarkis’s youth had been the discovery that knowing you were being an ass did not actually stop you from continuing to be an ass.” ― T. Kingfisher, Swordheart In September of 2021, middle… Read More ›
Snow Day Musings
“Belief has nothing to do with truth.” ― Percival Everett, James If you are just about anywhere in the country, outside Califonia, I hope today finds you warm and cozy curled up in your home, devoid of purpose besides… Read More ›
Out With The Old and In With The New – But Will We Be Able To Tell The Difference?
“This is how you hustle the arcane. Skirt the rules but don’t break them.” ― Victor LaValle, The Ballad of Black Tom Twenty four is now a wrap and it is off to twenty five. Reading through my social… Read More ›
Dad Gone Wild 