All Things Must End (Even This Year)
And so another year comes to a close, and with it the first decade of this much-vaunted third millennium. A lot has happened in these ten years. Some b...
Author: Aldean
A Decade of Missed Movies
I have missed a lot of movies over the past decade. Of course, very few of us are able to get out to see every movie that looks interesting, but this is...
Christmas Memories
There are few things I miss at Christmas time as much as I do my younger brother’s Country phase: “The Old Man’s Back In Town” I mean, the kid real...
NaNoWriMo Post-Mortem
I actually tried it. It was a doomed effort, of course, from the start; all odds were stacked against me, as were common sense and human decency. But I...
Memory to Meaning
Mine is not a hero’s journey. I have not been a warrior,(1) nor a war correspondent.(2) I did not track down an entire Eastern European national soccer ...