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Longing and Desire

Along with pretty much everyone I know, my husband and I recently finished the fourth season of The Crown on Netflix. Maybe it was being…

Apr 6, 2021

Longing and Desire

Apr 6, 2021

Just Another Frog

I once heard a man in his mid-fifties sharing at an AA meeting as he opened with an amusing story about his particular morning. He said he…

May 17, 2020

Just Another Frog

May 17, 2020

First Week Check-In

It’s been seven days since my No Complaining, No Criticizing thirty-day experiment and I am pretty impressed thus far with my success. I…

Apr 13, 2020

First Week Check-In

Apr 13, 2020

My Thirty Day Experiment

What if I stopped complaining for thirty days? What if I stopped criticizing for that same amount of time? What if I made the decision to…

Apr 6, 2020

My Thirty Day Experiment

Apr 6, 2020

I won my first wet T-shirt contest on Sunday.

When I bartended at The Copa, we’d have a weekly wet jockey shorts contest hosted by a drag queen. The contestants would stand in a plastic…

Oct 30, 2019

I won my first wet T-shirt contest on Sunday.

Oct 30, 2019

I am a fool.

This is made most apparent to me in my marriage of 25 years. The same problems keep arising time and again dating back to the start in…

Jul 5, 2018

I am a fool.

Jul 5, 2018

I’m a little dark today…

I think I’re been on what they call in AA a pink cloud after the amputation of my left leg below the knee. I left the the hospital within 3…

Mar 2, 2018

I’m a little dark today…

Mar 2, 2018

A Leg Up

By the end of yesterday, I had pretty much decided on amputation. But this morning as I got up and hobbled to the bathroom on the bad leg…

Feb 16, 2018

A Leg Up

Feb 16, 2018

Dandelions

It is Saturday morning six months after we’ve moved into our newly constructed house on Fair Oaks Drive, in a suburb of Akron, Ohio. I’m…

Jan 11, 2018

Jan 11, 2018

It’s time to kill my parents.

Maybe slitting their throats is more fitting than bludgeoning. Either way, something violent and bloody, a real visceral kill, not…

Oct 21, 2016

It’s time to kill my parents.

Oct 21, 2016

JHogan

JHogan

I write to convey what goes unspoken between us, and to remember that my search always leads back to the here and now.

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