There’s OCD & hoarders aplenty in my large fam. Therefore outrage that many times in my life I’ve up & sold my possessions. The nerve! Some were especially flabbergasted when I sold a ‘family heirloom’ to raise funds to travel across Europe after quitting my job. This was no true antique, merely a dark-stained wood… Read more

In the early 2000s it was decided I would try online dating. The women I was matched with were considerably younger than me. I wondered why this was. Then it hit me: I was an artist, writer, quasi-musician, with a day job that might as well have been called ‘marginally employed.’ I fit a slacker… Read more