I’ll Eat To That
Travel diaries, food porn, random rants, and various musings about stuff that I feel like musing about.
Blog Posts
About My Upcoming Spa Day
So yeah, I guess I’m having the surgery. The primary reason I know that is because I have stopped eating per the instructions that were given to me. It wasn’t really a conscious choice, it just sort of happened. Of course giving away all of the food in my...
A Picture Is Worth…
2+2=7
I was never really all that good at math. To this day it remains my father’s greatest disappointment in me that I can’t do anything but the simplest of addition in my head. I figure if I really needed to do complicated long division on my own, they wouldn’t have...
Fight or Flight
I’ve had exactly one real fight in my life. It was eighth grade and after months (perhaps years) of torment from a junior high school bully I finally decided to stand up for myself and fight back. So when said bully came up behind me and hit me in the back, as he...
Say Anything
I talked to a friend of mine earlier tonight for the first time in a couple of weeks. I thought it was a little weird that we hadn’t spoken much but I am more than a little bit self-involved these days so it wasn’t more than a passing thought every now and then. But...
Cancer Bingo
About a week until the scheduled surgery and now less than a week for me to proverbially shit or get off the proverbial pot, proverbially speaking. I will need to make my decision by no later than Tuesday evening because that is when I will have my last meal. It’s...
A Serious Error in Judgment
Throughout my life I have always tried to balance the two sides of my intellectual nature, which can best be summed as follows: Side 1: Knowledge equals power Side 2: The dumber you are, the happier you are This usually manifests itself in a voracious consumption of...
Those Who Are Tardy Do Not Get Fruit Cup
Things I do at 4am when I can't sleep: Stare at the ceiling. It's white. There are no tiles to count. Think about work and all of the ways in which I have probably screwed something up or made someone angry Go through YouTube for random clips of old movies. ...
Cancer Porn
No, I’m not just sitting around waiting for Armageddon – there are still lots of things to do between now and the surgery. The main thing is to obsessively, endlessly troll the Internet reading every last word ever written about esophageal cancer, staging, treatment,...
August 17th: On This Day in History
1786: Davy Crocket is born 1807: The first commercial steamboat sailed in New York 1893: Mae West is born 1907: Pike’s Place Market opens in Seattle 1915: A category 4 hurricane hits Galveston, Texas 1943: Robert De Niro is born 1953: The first meeting of Narcotic’s...
Deeper Dives
The Year of Living With Cancer
In 2012, I was diagnosed with Esophageal Cancer. To help myself cope with it, I wrote about it. A lot. And yes, the picture of Angela and Jordan will make sense at some point if you read enough.
The Year of Living Differently
After cancer, I decided to try to mix things up and do something different every single day for a year. Did I make it?
50 for 50 by 50
To celebrate, or perhaps to distract myself from, my impending 50th birthday in 2016, I embarked on a project to give $50 to 50 different charities by the time I turned 50.
Gun Violence
A page full of facts to help you be better informed about the issues surrounding gun violence in the United states.