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  • Purpose

    Purpose

    I know it’s not all on me. Yet, why do I so often feel like my failures are more severe than other people’s? Many of my transgressions are not what most would even consider failures. You know: Hmmm. A lot of my transgressions, it appears, are connected to not having cash on me to help… Read more

  • Mission

    Mission

    I just burned the pizza crust. It went from too doughy to black on the bottom in the 2 minutes I was struggling to open the diced ham. Yes, I did have it on a timer, but I might have peeked sooner if I hadn’t been fighting plastic. I hate plastic. In Pagosa Springs, beneath… Read more

  • Theme

    Theme

    You’d have thought I was in preschool as I fumbled through this attempt to change up my blog’s theme after oh, I dunno, a decade. I take that back, my preschool grandsons would have done better. I’m sure it’s quite intuitive to a younger brain. There are a slew of dystopian-themed series and movies out… Read more

  • Closet Podcaster

    Closet Podcaster

    Coming soon! . . . Journalism 101 with Tripping Raul will be a podcast where we delve into what journalism used to be . . . and still should be . . . mainly through the lens of the 1990s. We will explore what it was like working in print media before the helter-skelter, oft-biased… Read more

  • To Die For

    To Die For

    Creating my to-do list for tomorrow, it crossed my mind that, oh, I’ll be home from Junction by then and will have access to a few more resources . . . or I could die and not have to worry about work ever again. (Bill Burr did a great comedy sketch on that.) I‘m multitasking!… Read more

  • What’s to Come?

    What’s to Come?

    This really wasn’t a draft, now was it? In my fruitless attempts to write for fun and interest, I occasionally open a new post and then stare at it mindlessly before realizing I absolutely have nothing to say. Heaven knows when I initially created this blank page but it was a while ago, so there… Read more