What if I don't drop dead tomorrow?
Updates. SUBSTACK. I have a Substack, and lately, I write there more than here. https://patresa.substack.com/ STORY & SONG SERIES. Over...
My Radical Wish List for Public Education
A school shooting 40 minutes down the road on January 4. Two lives lost, including the shooter’s. Seven more wounded, including the...
old place, new dog
Ten things: 1 There are facts, and there are the stories we tell about the facts. I don’t know who said that. 2 I recently emptied every...
It's my party, and I'll cry if I want to.
Yesterday was my birthday. I’m 49. I wish that, long ago, I had started a log of all the things I learned or realized or noticed since my...
All Boys Aren't Blue, Sex Positivity, & How to Discuss
A couple of weeks ago, Fisher and the rest of the 5th grade split rooms -- boys in one, girls in another -- and learned about puberty. He...
sameliness is next to godliness.
I’m worried about our ability to think critically and discuss tough things without falling into the shitter. For this reason, I want to...
Mondays: Cynicism is a foreign antibody.
Molecular Fatigue. I’ve been excessively tired for months – like, in bed by 8:30, tired. (Although, it’s currently10pm.. I’m writing from...
the inescapable reality of our absurd existence.
Seven out of the twelve paragraphs I wrote in my journal this morning (58%) debated whether or not journaling was a waste of paper....
I do not trust the internet with my child.
Fisher wants his own YouTube channel. For a while, he wanted it to be a Bey Blade channel. Then, Minecraft. Now, Nerf Guns. Until about a...
little bright dots like pearls
Yesterday was Fisher’s birthday. He is 11. I pulled out the old camcorder my parents gave his dad and I when Fisher was born. I pulled...
