I found this message-in-a-bottle while looking back through some old writing. Seems apropos today. A little less than a year ago, I took...

Me waking up at seven and thinking, "Well maybe I got away with it." I even told B: "I'm doing surprisingly well." Then, after fighting...

Me taking stock of where I am In a gray foggy no-man's-land Not doing well enough to keep advancing Not doing badly enough to retreat...

I stayed up past midnight Playing with comicbooks Something I haven't done In a long time (Staying up past midnight that is)

Morning was working on teaching materials. Slow and steady, but still old school. After lunch, I discovered that my mind was bricked.

My mind flew, easy and free. Like when I was young.

Since I have some free time this afternoon, I was thinking about some of the different things I might do with it. I almost immediately...

I had a thought. But I didn't write it down. So now it's gone.

My mind feels like it is on spin cycle. But only set to medium. So it could be worse.

I feel old. Ready to be put out to pasture. Or sent to the glue factory.

The other day I was walking along the road, And felt like running for just a bit I knew I shouldn’t Because I’d just over do it, And...

I had Covid the last few weeks of March 2020, right at the beginning of the pandemic (early adopter, cannot recommend, 1 out of 5 stars.)...

I used to feast on the world in huge bites, Stuffing life in with both hands as fast as I could; Now I nibble Carving off atoms, with a...

My mind doesn’t seem to work the way it used to. I had COVID-19 in March 2020, and I have Long Covid. I have some of the myriad of Long...