What a Way to Go: Life at the End of Empire

Six months. Six months since I jumped boldly into the Font of Helvetica and let the Roman Times roll. Six months since I last crept from my warm burrow to check for my blast shadow. Six months since I reported on the comings and goings of my own private Wobegon. [...]

Liberator of captives,And defender of the poor,Physician of the sick,
And champion of kings,
O trophy-bearer,
And Great Martyr George,
Intercede with
Christ our God that
Our souls be saved.
The Hymn of St. George

“So how’d it go?” I was sitting by my woodstove, checking in on the website, when Todd’s sticky popped up announcing he was back from Chicagoland. [...]

“Old Marley was as dead as a door nail… This must be distinctly understood, or nothing wonderful can come of the story I am going to relate.”
Charles Dickins, A Christmas Carol

I did something the other day that I haven’t done for a long time. Something I used to do often. Something unexpected: [...]

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It was 5:30 AM. Still dark outside but I couldn’t sleep. I headed downstairs and started a fire. My laptop was pulsing in the darkness and I walked over to wake it up. Todd’s sticky greeted me. I sat down [...]

Don’t be afraid to be afraid…
nnnnnnnnn Yoko Ono, Beautiful Boys
I have heard many astounding things in the four years since I began to make What a Way to Go. The most astounding is this, which I have heard more than once, from real, living, seemingly intelligent and thoughtful people: “I refuse to [...]