Don’t forget, we’re all counting on you.
Jun
20
Father's Day 2021
🧔🏻♂️ Father's Day.
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It is perhaps a less complicated holiday for me, but not without the thoughtful, concerned gazing into the empty space of a room; eyes blurred…
May
22
Magical Closets
🚪 You remember how fucking magical closets were as a kid?
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Didn't need to be a big closet or a fancy closet. It could just be a tiny…
May
09
Mother's Day 2021
🌺 Mother's Day, 2021.
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I feel incredibly lucky right now — It has already been an amazing experience to watch firsthand this woman I love so much become a…
Apr
22
The City Is Alive With People
🌆 On Witchy Poo’s 1995 “Everybody Looks Good in a Helmet,” the second track “The Poor Man’s Parnassus” has quite a few lines that talk about The City.…
Apr
21
Pasquale.
🏚 My grandfather, Pasquale ‘Pat’ Castaldo, anytime after 1991, would ask me every single time I'd see him, if I lived anywhere near Walla Walla.
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”Patrick,“ he'…
Apr
02
It's me.
🧔🏻 Hey. It’s me.
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I think this camera makes me beard look whiter than it is. I’m no 🧙🏻♂️, not yet.
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I’m drinking a beer (a Bud Light,…
Mar
15
The City and I are restless.
🦫 The city is restless.
Or maybe it's me?
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This feeling you're having of being trapped inside, missing all the things of your old life, well,…
Feb
10
Together.
🌊 Together we’ll wander
to the sea and think about
the future and the birds,
and chase both
in a frenzy of life
that invites the promise of this,…
Jan
19
Morning Train
🚉 I get Sheena Easton's "Morning Train" stuck in my head.
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A lot.
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I've been doing so since I first heard it play on…
Jan
14
2020 --> 2021
⏰ I wanted to write some thoughtful piece about 2020 being over and the leaving it in the rearview mirror, but I just can't. ⠀
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It's been…