A guide to some of the things I’ve published on Medium and elsewhere. — Conversations with My Wife Conversations with My Wife (collection) The collected conversations, in case you liked some and want to read more.medium.com Lessons & Observations I Like Being Married One weird guy’s experience being married to his best friend(s)byrslf.co Start With a Partnership Romance is good, friendship is good, but a romantic relationship has got to be a working partnershipmedium.com

. First full day of Spring brings sunshine and flowers as pink flurries while I sit in the parking lot watching the cherry tree upwind drop pink petals on my windshield; soft and happy for a moment, before blowing on and away looking for another soul to bring happiness in the pink snowflakes and a burgeoning new season…

The dragging sadness of other people’s memories — An old seat pad, used while hunting; electric, once, now cold and dead, not even enough heft left to cushion. The older lady tells stories of her late husband, kept warm while spending hours on the water. How can this not be valuable? A bag of coins, both old and…

Sometimes what seems like a problem is just two people who haven’t talked to each other yet — James Finn responded to a tech-related story I posted, which reminded me of another story. (This happens when former military swap sea stories, or whatever the Air Force calls their tale tales of uniformed days. This, however, is a “guarenteed no-sh*tter,” as my chiefs used to say.) Young Workers Scared by Technology Or maybe “technology”?medium.com

He didn’t do anything — He didn’t do anything! Not anything real. He didn’t touch you. Not really. No more than any kid with a finger an inch from your ear, whining “I’m not touching you, I’m not touching you!” No more than that guy in the subway staring at you staring at your crotch licking his lips…

Do I have the right to get rid of trash in my house? Hey, I’m not in Florida! — I used to love the Doonesbury comic strip, decades ago. I would read it every day in the paper. I bought the books with the early collections (still have them in a box in the basement, probably). And then gradually I stopped reading the comics, because Trudeau stopped being funny…

Or maybe “technology”? — If you have a question about how some machine around the office works, you ask the youngest coworker you can find, right? Because kids these days, they understand all that tech stuff, right? Um…depends on the tech stuff, alas. 'Scanners are complicated': why Gen Z faces workplace 'tech shame' Garrett Bemiller, a 25-year-old New Yorker, has spent his entire life online. He grew up in front of screens, swiping…www.theguardian.com

Poem texted to my wife, because why not? — I look down as my phone lights up to see an alert of no importance plus your face sporting new ’do lit by happy smile with eyes looking at me at me at me and I fill with happy tears because what could be more beautiful in this world?

Once you reach a certain age, you can do what you want (I am told) — So in 2021 Deb started getting ideas about hair coloring: Conversation with My Wife (208) “In my own defense, I was left unsupervised”medium.com Then last September, 2022, she actually started to get serious. Not for the spray-on stuff that washes out, but the salon stuff that takes over an hour to put on. Initially she mentioned purple, blue, or aqua as her…