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The Problem Is Me

Cross Country Road Trip

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Journal Entry from 12-15-23

Rumination

Random Fragmentary Thoughts #2

Family

Anarchy in the Water: A Recollection

Nighttime Father Dreams

Journal Entry from September 30, 2023

Meditation

Two Years in New York (My Covid/NYC Fictional Memoir)

FEAR

The River (auto-fiction about cancer)

Recollections of Godzilla

A Portrait of Grandmother

Random Thoughts on Morocco, Henry Miller, Democracy

Journal Entry #2: March 28, 2019: NYC

Creativity, Reading, Love, Life

The Curse of Convention

Reading, Writing Fiction, Death

*One Last Thing*: My Full Novel

Real Life #1: A Non-political Personal Diary about Post-NYC, Post-Lockdowns, Post-dad cancer diagnosis life in Santa Barbara, CA

Journal Entry: Covid, East Harlem, May 6, 2020

San Diego Days

Fear and Trembling…and Expectation

Journals and Random Writing: DEATH

Fragments from My Mind

Kierkegaard, Depression, Relationships, Ego

*Random Thoughts*: Sobriety, Therapy, Narcissism, Evolution

Toxic Tango

Small Favor to Ask of my Readers

Nature and Character

Sibling Rage

Boredom, Existential Angst, Reality

Lessons Learned from the Road

Disgust and Desire

Backpacking

Joy and Spiritual Exhaustion

Derrick

Big Sur and the Henry Miller Library

A Moment in Time

Random Thoughts on Life and Existence

Guilt

The Post-Dad Diaries #1

The River (auto-fiction about cancer)

Invite your friends to read The Incompatibility of Being Alive

Disgust and Desire (Chapter 5)

Diary #27 (6-19-23)

My Father and Me: Pine Mountain

Disgust and Desire (Chapters 3 and 4)

Self-Pity

Diary Entry from April 1st, 2021

Disgust and Desire (Chapter 2)

A Note About my Father

Diary #26 (6-08-23)

Disgust and Desire (A Novel)

Diary #25 (6-05-23)

Diary #24 (6-04-23)

Diary #23 (6-03-23)

Diary #22 (6-02-23)

Diary #21 (6-01-23)

Diary #20 (5-31-23)

Diary #19 (5-30-23)

Diary #18 (5-29-23)

Diary #17 (5-27-23)

Diary #16 (5-24-23)

Portland, Oregon 2010

Diary #15 (5-23-23)

"Home" (auto-fiction)

Diary #14 (5-22-23)

Diary #13 (5-21-23)

Diary #12 (5-19-23)

Diary #11 5-18-23

Diary #10 (5-17-23)

Diary #9 (5-16-23)

Diary #8 (5-15-23)

Diary #7 (5-13-23)

Poems for my Father

Diary #6 (5-9-2023)

Life in the Slow Lane

Diary Entry #5

Diary Entry #4

Diary Entry #3, The Cancer Diaries

Diary Entry #2

Diary Entry #1

Black Sheep Family

TWO YEARS IN NEW YORK (prologue)

Slicing the Gordian Knot

Visiting my Father in the Hospital

Family Myth

Death

**Update on my Father

The Ravages and Joys of Family

The Case for Getting off Twitter

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A Strange Christmas

Cool Kids

The Bourgeoisie; The Past; Stalin

Family Power Dynamics

My Father

Substack Madman

Chris Rock

Random Thoughts on New York City

The Genius of H.L. Mencken

NYC MEMOIR: “TWO YEARS IN NEW YORK”

Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

Sunday Journaling Notes

Shame and Fraudulence

Feeding Tube Incident

Auto-fiction/"memoir" in progress

Switching Rooms

Update on my Dad’s Cancer

Occidental

Auto-fiction/fictional memoir

FIRST DRINK

Email to my Mother

Changes

My Father’s Cancer; Moving In with my Girlfriend

Mood

Notes on Rebellion

Dostoevsky’s Prison Book 📚💀

The First Post of 2023