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  • Aging and the Antichrist

    Aging and the Antichrist

    I’m hanging with Mom again, working from my childhood home for the week to help her out and to just be here for anything she needs. There are no excuses for the indefensible acts carried out by corrupt priests. As my mom has always said, “There are popes in hell.” That goes for anyone who… Read more

  • 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