Category: The Chronicles

Hello Maybe…

Nice to meet you..I think…maybe…probably.Thanks for signing up but I’m not sure what I’m doing…mostly…definitely. Howard is restless. His brain is flashing like one of those delaminated lithium-ion battery operated L.E.D. lightbulbs outside of one of those combination microbrewery, coffee house, or axethrowing entertainment businesses that went bust during the COVID years. There is still Read More

Jarbidge, Nevada – I Don’t Know How Or Why…But Yet…

After six years and roughly 94,000 kilometers of accident-free, mostly liberating, healing, and blissful cancer-riddled motorcycle riding, I am convinced that heightened situational awareness, resilience, myopic vision quests, haphazard planning and action, as well as the healing vapors of motorcycle exhaust, are only some of the things that are proving the prognoses of experts and Read More

Howard’s One Potato, 30 Potato, Hot Potato Soup

Begin by going down to your basement, being careful not to step in the cat’s recent gaackk, or secret, locked larder to rescue those Yukon Gold potatoes that have already sprouted and gone a little soft. You know, the ones you bought in preparation for the most deadly viral pandemic lock down apocalypse, not realizing Read More

Howard’s Lame Duck Soup

Start with the leftover, one winged, utility roast Christmas duck. If the anemic, starved, post apocalypse death camp duck does not yield enough leftover meat for your soup, you can add some GMO chicken or turkey. Boil the carcass and added meats and let simmer for an hour or so. Pick the carcass clean of Read More

Howard Is Unwell – Definitely To Be Continued

It was a difficult morning. It started out hopeful enough but turned out to be cathartic but life affirming, hence a conflict and a call to conviction, resignation, and action. Howard ending up standing the bike well out of town in the gravelled parking lot of a seldom used but well maintained church. The doors Read More

AT THE END OF THE ROAD – AT THE END OF THE WORLD

Typically the end of the road lies where the land meets the sea, where there is no land on the horizon, where water is the horizon. To stand at the transition point from earth to water brings fear and wonder, perhaps longing. To act on any of these feelings would mean to swim or travel Read More

Rhymes With Hunt

HUNT to manage in the search for game to pursue animals or humans for food and in sport to pursue animals or humans with intent to capture to search out to traverse in search of prey BLUNT having an edge or point that is not sharp lack of keenness or perception inherent lack of sharpness Read More

Eight Limbs : Story 17 (Draft)

It could have been yet another waking dream of a life half lived and half dead that found Howard lying on his back, not dead, on a pleasantly fragrant black rubber mat, on the floor of a small room meant for more serious movements and thinking by more serious and Goddess-like creatures. It was part Read More

“It’s So Good To See Your Face”

By itself, this statement would be a joyous and welcome thing to hear no matter whether you know the speaker or not. It would be particularly wonderful to hear if you could actually see the speakers face and fully hear the words. Howard was shopping for food at a supposedly sterile and immune ‘big box Read More

Howard Gets The Bumps

Howard was visiting his mother on that Sunday. It was Mother’s Day. Why wouldn’t he? His mother was in cognitive decline and he felt lucky that she was doing as well she was and still living on her own. That she still remembered his name was still a comfort. He was also lucky to have Read More