Author Archives: bryan

With perhaps half a dozen part-time exceptions, the last time I walked to work was in the last week of February 2025. Now here I am in the first week of March 2026, in a new job, in a new … Continue reading →

Life lived. Possessions accumulated. Surroundings reimagined. Ritual updated. Longing humbled. Time unraveled. Life lost.

I have spent my entire life believing, trusting, thinking the best. After these 66+ years, is it too late for me to become settled? Accepting? Jaded? In this time and in various capacities I have worked in (or proximate to) … Continue reading →

If I am respected as a person (as I should be), I should not need the added comfort of being (ultra) respected for my minority status. It feels as if political correctness and recognition are excuses for maintaining hierarchies. From … Continue reading →

Not even a whisper. I know words were spoken. I saw his lips moving and I observed nonverbal acknowledgement from those nearby and I heard the squawking, distorted, indecipherable response from the addressee two chairs to my right, yet I … Continue reading →