Here we are again. It's 2026, I'm 42 again, and we have yet another Annual Birthday Wish Awards ceremony! This marks the 7th year presenting these awards. I hope the recipients of these awards have as much fun receiving them as I have giving them out. The first award, appropriately, is going to the first person to wish me a happy birthday this year on Facebook. I present the First Wish Award. Joy wished me a happy birthday 3 days before my birthday! (And on her own  birthday,

If you spun the dial fast enough, you could create a strange flickering between static and random snippets of music or talk radio...

The conversation was, unfortunately, very one-sided.

Wow... it's been another year. My, how the time does fly. Since my last birthday, I've started a new position at work in a new...

Words. Words, words, words, words, words. And maybe (hopefully) some other words besides words . In other words, other words . Like...

Sometimes, you can't just wait for inspiration to hit you. I don't give myself as much time to write as I'd truly like to have. I mean,...

I love writing. I've enjoyed writing this blog for the last few years. I especially enjoyed the weird Chronicles of Sizzle thing I was...

There's this squirrel that lives in my yard. It's a cute little fella. Mostly grey, with a bit of a scraggly tail. Not as bushy as it...

Sometimes, you just need to turn it off then back on again. This applies to many things, I think. My phone, the magical glass brick I...

For some odd reason, right around the first week of March every year, I get all these happy birthday wishes. Don't they know I was born...

I was thinking about something today. I got distracted by, I don't know, pretty colors or something, who knows. Point is, I got...

Hey there. I know I haven't posted anything in a bit, I apologize. All half dozen of you who actually remember Whatever This Is exists...

Each of these steps is crucial to my process, and each step gets me closer and closer to sleeping on the couch.

I died last night. It's a little fuzzy, trying to remember details. It's all slowly slipping away though, as everything else does for me.

Every year, I seem to have another birthday. Doesn't matter that we are only born once. For some reason, it's tradition to remind each other

Overheard cellphone conversation between two elf on the shelfs: "...trick is to get creative. You gotta find a spot you've never hidden...

Thanksgiving is an odd holiday for me. On one hand, I love to eat until it hurts. Today, I'm given certain allowances. It's practically...

This is a story about a monk in search of an answer. Not just any answer; the answer. To EVERYTHING. It begins like many stories: in the...