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Tom Ciorciari's avatar

Fantastic! Four new pieces to digest and milk over today! Bravo.

Now, about aging, i’m 62 1/2, and I don’t know what that means other than I will likely not be here in another 30 years. Then again…? Who knows? But you do get to an age where you start to question the pains and aches (and man, I hiatal hernia sure, feels like it could maybe be a heart attack the first time you feel that pain in your chest), or that ache down your left bicep (and Man, it’s always the left!) Or the time I had that weird numbing of the left side of my mouth, including my teeth(I told you man it’s always the left). And how I was up all last night with indigestion, because I had a giant sub from Jersey Mike’s, which, of course, was my own doing. And more often than not a, just like everybody else, will ignore these things, because once the pain or the discomfort is gone, it’s you know outta sight outta mind. Apparently the wisdom that comes with age only applies to the wisdom you share with others and don’t put to use for yourself.

Ah, coparenting. They tell you it’s the best way to soften the blow of divorce for your kids. What they don’t tell you is that you’re trying to do this with somebody who you dislike enough to fucking divorce. Yeah, it’s a battle, just because you got divorced, doesn’t mean all of those things and all those issues you disagreed on have evaporated. It just heightens the surety that you were right about each other all along. They, whoever they are, sure would like to tell you how to do things in your life, what is best, the “right” thing to do. Everybody has their own journey. And everybody’s journey is unique to themselves. We do the best we can in any given situation. You just keep on keeping on my friend.

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Lindsey B.'s avatar

PS: I’m checking into the train question. Got a Civil War buff in my family along with train buffs. The answers must be there..

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