Normally, I aim to only write things that can be read in 50 years without much loss in value. This time, however, we have a unique event unfolding, and I feel compelled to give my take. As a standing nation, the United States of America is one of the greatest shifts in politics that has […]
2025-09-08 One Year Later
It has now been a year since I last saw my wife and kids, and I only know a little more than I knew 11 months ago: I am off probation October 22nd, and a few weeks of bureaucracy later the event itself that created this circumstance will have never legally happened. From that point, […]
2025-08-21 An Unresolved Dialectic (and Towel-Throw)
Stories have a dialectical nature: there is a thesis, an antithesis, and a synthesis that combines the thesis and antithesis into something new. It is how we all perceive stuff, and it comes with upsides and downsides. One downside to this mechanism is that it’s difficult to express things before the presentation of the synthesis. […]
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2025-07-30 Gespalten Anniversary
Technically, Tori and I have two marriage anniversaries. The first one was on April 19, 2016. We were already engaged with no clear plan for a wedding, and we were trying to make ends meet to pay down our debts and more financially prepare ourselves, so we had been living in my car together. A […]
2025-06-20 My Wife’s Birthday
Father’s Day was last Sunday, and was very difficult for me. It is hard for most people to conceptualize, but being in the presence of other families who carry on their public lives in a relatively pleasant manner is a painful reminder of my own missing wife and children. It didn’t help that the Vacation […]
2025-06-02 A Recap and Way Forward
It has now been just under 9 months since I have last seen my wife Tori and grade-school kids Victor and Mia. I have probably paid the full price for what I have done. But, I’ll get to that. Recap To save you reading the last 8 emotionally-drenched, meandering posts, I’ll give a summary of […]
2025-05-04 May the Force of Goodness Bring Shame
What I Did On Star Wars Day, I think I’ll share a buzzkill of an update. May not only the Fourth be with you, but also the Fifth (of vodka), the Sixth (of man), the Seventh (of God), and maybe an Eighth (if you’re into marijuana). I am awaiting God’s deliverance, on His timing. A […]
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2025-04-14 Annihilating Nihilism
What I Did A few days ago, I grieved both my kids’ birthday. I still don’t know where they are, and nobody connected to Tori or the kids has given any information whatsoever. I’m starting to get worried if they’re still okay, since all I have is a cryptically-worded email sent to me mid-September from […]
2025-03-08 Ending Stoicism
What I Did As of today, it is the 6-month anniversary since I lasted interacted with Victor, Tori, or Mia. The consequences of the September event have slowly worked to ending my career as an insurance agent, and I desperately hope this is the last of the punishment I must endure. Please excuse another long […]
2024-12-21 Three Traditions
What I Did Nothing much to speak of has happened lately. Life has been steadily marching onward. It’s very difficult for me to get up and do anything these days, but it will probably get easier once I get past the darkest day of the year (December 21st), and get past this Christmas. To recap […]