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13 Mar 2025 11 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey
Mounted deer on backside of Marlen’s house After leaving the hospital, Allie and his crew head home. The rest of us agree to meet over at this BJ's Restaurant & Brewhouse. Dad makes it as far as drifting inside the building, but then un...
6 Mar 2025 20 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey
While we're waiting, I observe that Mom does seem somewhat out of it. Dad's convinced that he knows all the signs, and that she's just had another stroke. Marlen meanwhile is nowhere to be found, has obviously wandered away somewhere, possi...
2 Jan 2025 35 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey
The year gets off to a tremendous start in Westerville, where sometime in January, Michael’s Pizza becomes the first place to serve alcohol there since 1875. When we moved here in the late 90s, Westerville and one small section of the Clintonville a...
6 Mar 2023 1 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey
Here’s my aunt Donna Sue’s first husband Griff. Then my aunt Cissy holding me as a baby, Donna Sue herself somewhat obscured in the back. Off to the side, those are my cousins Jada and Shanna. Griff was this intense military guy, but alway...
20 Feb 2023 2 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey
constant mayhem always brings a smile to the face I recognized this wood paneling right away, though Mom’s handwritten note on the back help confirms the date. This would have been from the fall of 1981, at a house we had just started rent...
14 Feb 2023 2 minute read 2 comments jasonmcgathey
My brother’s 2nd birthday. I recently had an epiphany of sorts concerning a bunch old photos sitting in boxes around my house. Looking at many of them now, it’s a bit troubling to think that although often knowing the people in the pictures, t...
29 Mar 2021 3 minute read 0 comments JonicaBradley
This morning started as usual with my eyes glued shut and the little dog, Bok Tui (means Fat Boy in Laotian), burrowing under the covers. Neither one of us wanted to get out of bed. He has always been super cuddly, loving to curl up under blankets o...
22 Mar 2021 17 minute read 0 comments JohnVibes
This is the full third chapter of my book Paper Squares and Purple Stars: My Life as a Rave Outlaw. I have decided to share a few chapters for free here, to give you an idea of what to expect from the book. The book is already available for purchase...
13 Feb 2021 1 minute read 0 comments yungzapatista
// Soundtrack: Door - Liam the Younger I walked past the house where Gary and Max had an apartment on Jewel Street. On summer nights, the front steps was a home in itself. We would sit their until the wee hours of morning smoking cigarettes, dreaming...
11 Mar 2019 4 minute read 0 comments Steve B Howard
Meditation Journal: Questions always arise. “Is my breathing too fast? Is it too slow? Am I hyperventilating? Why are my thoughts wheeling around my serious intentions?” I’m a pseudo Buddhist. I can talk the talk, but ask me to sit quietly counting m...
