Ruminations from a Hopeless Overthinker on Life, Death and the BS in between

The sun shining on the reliable Deviled Egg

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Is Anyone as Reliable as My Car?

Serious fucking question.  Besides a select, and I mean very select few, I can’t think of many.  Patterns, history, do me wrong once shame on you and all that jazz. …

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February 10, 2023

The majestic boiling ocean at Acadia National Park, Maine

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Don’t Boil the Ocean

Don't boil the ocean. A friend of mine said this the other night.  At the time he was referring to a mutual friend being teased because his favorite football team…

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February 3, 2023

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Metaphorically Speaking

So I was driving home from work tonight and started thinking (keep your shocked faces to yourself), I write in metaphors a lot.  Okay, now that I really think about…

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January 19, 2023

Phobia of dark alleys? Nah, not when there's a pub in the middle. (Photo by Joey Banks on Unsplash)

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Phobia-phobic

Is there such a thing as phobia-phobic, a fear of phobias?  Is it even a real word?  When I first heard this word it made me laugh. A character on…

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January 6, 2023

What are you looking at? (Photo by Aron Visuals on Unsplash)

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The Marvelous Ms. Slowsky

Remember those Geiko commercials that had the turtles named the Slowskys?  They’re gold.  Don’t remember?  Look it up. Done?  Okay, now we can go on.  The Slowskys, they’re on their…

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January 5, 2023