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Author: Tripping Raul

  • The Requisite Dull Background Chapter Before Things Pick Up

    I was nearly 10 in 1971 when we packed up the 1969 Dodge Polara with summer clothes and a gerbil whose name I don’t recall as the Gray Family of Five set out from Ann Arbor, Michigan, to Grand Junction, Colorado. I remember singing Donny Osmond songs until my mom…

  • Overactive imagination

    Edison’s Black Dahlia has given me a mission. An important mission that I shall use this blog and all of my positive energy to fulfill: Writing the family ghost stories for Dublin. Fun! But where do I begin? I was thinking I should maybe start where it started for me:…

  • Resurrection

    I lost power. I realized after a tarot-card reading yesterday (the second in my life) that what I mistook for being content was allowing my power to wane. All my raging and teeth-grinding on this blog for all those years wasn’t simply angst. It was building and exerting my energy.…

  • Your history

    Between rib-kicking laughter and girlish giggling, Ellen on Sunday morning told me I really must go see the doctor about the deformity that has developed along my left hip, slightly above and behind the scar. “It sticks out like sausage in a man’s pants that has woefully lost its way,” I told…

  • Moving on

    Ah, the smell of bacon frying, the hiss of it, the pop and the pain of the grease burning my flesh. Yeah. Well, it’s been a pleasant *snarl* couple of days. But they’re over. I messed up, I shouldn’t have said that — especially since it could be construed as me…

  • Comfort food and suicide

    Very seldom do I desire doughnuts, but today is the exception. I stopped on my way home from dropping D off at work, snagged a couple from the 7-Eleven and downed one. The second is flirting with me but I believe I shall ignore it’s provocation. I will take a walk…

  • Champagne and Diamonds

    I simply must get my check in the mail to ensure my spot at the Champagne and Diamonds event later this month! It will be ever-so delightful all while supporting women with breast cancer. I’ve been once before with the ladies, and I look forward to going again. Oh, maybe…

  • On your way

    Dez, you and your mom are on your way to live at the ranch for about four months. I’ll get to see you a couple times a month, and on the weekends I don’t get to see you I’ll work hard at getting the house fixed up. We spoiled you…

  • Save yourself

    Allison has encouraged me to create an emotional armor: a shield to protect myself when needy people come at me with selfish requests; when people with great big gaps in their lives look to me to fill in the missing pieces. I’m working on the armor, but it occurs to…

  • Baffled

    I am downright perplexed. Tomorrow is College Friday and I can’t for the life of me find any of my favorite Michigan or CU apparel. I’ve cleaned out my closet, dug through the laundry basket, dumped out my drawers, tackled the laundry room and they’re nowhere to be found. I…