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19 Jul 2025 19 minute read 0 comments AserC $0.02
The evening was cool, and the air carried some dusty smell as a result of the earlier rainfall. Raindrops rattled on the thatched roof of the mud house in which Johnson studied, occasionally breaking into his concentration. As the rain fell, Johnson...
18 Jul 2025 13 minute read 0 comments AserC $0.04
Footsteps rattled in the building very close to ours, and seemed to be headed for the room in which I was just about taking my pound of flesh. Then I stopped to wonder if anyone had discovered my plot, and was rushing in to stop me. Sudden rush of ad...
10 Jul 2025 11 minute read 0 comments Greenchic $0.08
Our Victory Story: A Journey to Set the Heart Free to Beat and Live. (Created using Canva) Prelude to a Heart’s Victory — after enduring deep struggles and rising again Sweet is Victory that Comes After Surviving a Difficult Episode in Life! Life’...
4 Jul 2025 12 minute read 2 comments jasonmcgathey $0.05
July 11 Emma walks through back door saying she feels like a “sack of meat” after long day. I came across Firestarter today, in my boxes of books, and give it to her to read – she seems excited. I make this creamy ravioli from Dinnerly...
12 Jun 2025 10 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey $0.03
We have a few more relatively quiet days. Dad M and Cheryl sent $200 for Emma to spend this summer, which was really cool of them, so Erin takes her shopping - 2 brand new shirts, a couple of pencils she loves, a spiffy water bottle are the procee...
6 Jun 2025 14 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey $0.05
McKayla and Emma, sitting on an interstate divider near Livingston, Kentucky These summers have become so epic in my mind, and I try to never take them for granted. My daughter Emma is 16 and currently lives with her mom and sister in Kentucky...
9 May 2025 11 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey $0.08
This day begins as a virtual, bizarre repeat of the one before it, except downsized to Bucyrus scale. Or maybe a parallel universe where you find yourself in Bucyrus instead of a fairly nice casino in another state. Once again I dip out...
2 May 2025 14 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey $0.09
My first Kevin and Lynn encounter of this trip is something of a Shanghai attack, unexpectedly encountering them down in the continental breakfast area of our West Virginia hotel. I’ve met them before, of course, and they are roughly th...
25 Apr 2025 8 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey $0.05
Day One curious logo for place allegedly promoting happiness A strange though perhaps apt logo choice, for a place allegedly promoting happiness About a month before the unplanned Florida trip, I found myself taking a much happier, antici...
20 Mar 2025 16 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey $0.03
We get up on Wednesday and are still in this holding pattern, waiting on Mom's ashes and the death certificate paperwork to be processed. Erin and I of course took Dad's truck last night when driving back to the hotel. She badly wants...
