Beach Blogs Volume 1

Back in the spring of 2009, I was in Charleston doing stand up for Piccolo Spoleto. It was the third or fourth and ultimately final installment of Skinny White Comics, the show that started my run of shows at Piccolo. It was truly a great chapter of...

I wanted to thank everyone for the birthday wishes over the past few days. I think people like me more because of how belated the wishes are becoming. Part of me is super impressed. I swear to you that I got seven late birthday wishes today. My birthday was two days ag...

Around the start of the baseball season, I like to wax poetic about our national past time. 

But considering baseball was supposed to start in March, and here we are, finishing out opening weekend on the cusp of the start of the school year, this is what we are goi...

Abracadabra. 

It officially happened. It was yesterday, early afternoon, and I was sitting in the garage of my parents house. Sweat beaded down the back of my neck. I’m pretty sure that was from the late July heat, but one never knows. 

All I know is that it happened. I...

I’ve been spending a lot more time at my parent’s house these past few weeks. Doing absolutely nothing, mind you. It’s just that my three flights of stairs take a lot out of me. Most days I’ve got one, maybe two trips up and down. So once I get out I like to sit somewh...

In other Pandemic related news, yesterday I woke up around noon and my wife was watching“The Floor is Made of Lava" on Netflix. 

Not that there’s anything wrong with watching “The Floor is Made of Lava.” This is a free country. She can watch whatever she wants. It didn’...

Returned. 

That is the word that came to me this morning as I saw the news that John Lewis had passed away yesterday. 

That he was Resting.

That he was Resting Well. 

That he had Returned. 

That he wasn’t from this world. None of us are really if we stop and think about it....

Jaimie thinks the anti-depressants I’m on might be depressing me. 

She warned me they might. I don’t know whether or not to believe her, but I’ve never been on anti-depressants before, so what do I know. 

It’s not just her. A friend and an avid reader of the blog sent me...