April 19, 2020
Solus and Hope
How can one actually describe the pain of an isolated man? This question first popped into my head in the midst of a long and difficult night, the…
March 3, 2020
Underhill, Part 2
II. "To reject nihilism is the beginning of virtue." --- Anonymous Charles Dickens began his novel A Tale of Two Cities with the famous line “it was…
February 16, 2020
Underhill, Part 1
I. "I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity." --- Edgar Allen Poe Kingsport’s history has long been overshadowed by that of its more…
November 25, 2019
The Problem with Freedom: A “Sins We Remember Fondly” Postscript
XIII. How many people, if they were given the power to instantly have anything they wanted, would quickly self-destruct? I believe it is the vast…
October 27, 2019
Croatoan
"Boomers overinvested in personality Gen Xers cultivated an ironic detachment toward personality Millennials were constantly told that had…
September 11, 2019
The Sins We Remember Fondly, Part 4
X. Many of us who have spent time in 12-step or similar programs have come across the “martyr” personality. This person’s desire to clean up…
September 7, 2019
Diary of Another Madman
1 January 2015 I have twice sent out electronic messages-in-a-bottle, and twice have gone unanswered. The first time I considered it a one-off. The…
August 28, 2019
The Sins We Remember Fondly, Part 3
VIII. I was too mentally fatigued to open my computer and work for my second (or at times, my third) job, so I simply sat in a chair and closed my…
August 21, 2019
The Sins We Remember Fondly, Part 2
IV. I believe that confidence in social situations usually stems from a lack of introspection. The more you think about any given topic, the more you…
July 13, 2019
A Waking Nightmare
"Life is more like wrestling than dancing." --- Antoninus, vii. 61. Jared had always been a strange man. Not in a bad way, mind you: just a curious…