2025.09.DisappearingMoment: Brettsplaining Literary Journals
In September, I started learning about literary journals. These are publications that feature fiction, poetry, essays, or visual art. Most are online, a few...
2025.08.DisappearingMoment: Rejection Collection
I hope there is something that you love to do as much as I love to write. For me, it is the perfect balance of difficult and rewarding. Beth and I went to...
2025.07.DisappearingMoment: Like an Inoculation
My background contemplation this month has been about siblings. I am astonished by how different they can be. The way that some people seem more skeptical...
2025.06.DisappearingMoment: Selfish Twice Over
It’s satisfying to make something that serves your needs. Which feels selfish twice over. Taking the time to make anything feels indulgent. Serving my needs?...
2025.05.DisappearingMoment: Experience the Difference
A problem with leasing a Cybertruck? You might like it. Appreciate its comforts. It might be your favorite place to listen to music. Feel like you’re in full...
2025.04.DisappearingMoment: You Know Better
If someone at your gym offers you unsolicited advice, ignore it. Anyone who knows their shit keeps it to themselves. Even if you ask them for guidance, they...
2025.03.DisappearingMoment: Nothing Is True
I wish I could invest in Chinese companies. I don’t think it’s possible, and not just for me. I believe that it is impossible for anyone to invest in Chinese...
2025.02.DisappearingMoment: Value Is a Function
The Russian FSB picked up where the Soviet KGB left off. The KGB specialized in covert bugs and complicit informants. The FSB uses contemporary technology....
2025.01.DisappearingMoment: Demonstrating My Love
Beth was a committed vegetarian when we started dating, had been for years. I was several years in, too. And I had cut out dairy and eggs a couple of years...
2024.12.DisappearingMoment: Coaxial Atrocities
This month, a lot of people got worked up about the possibility of mystery drones over New Jersey. We made Orson Welles comparisons. The New York Times...