• Week 40. Return of the (Nickleb(m)ac)

    Dear Friend, I missed the week deadline again. Almost by two days at the time of writing. But I come bearing good news: I’m returning with the Every Song I Like series. I went to keep doing a through job with it and so I’m returning to it with more research, time and planning; to…

  • Week 39. I Feel Most Alive at the Edge of a Crosswalk

    Dear Friend. Small update and then some musings. I had a great week honestly. Stuff has progressed in the right direction and I’m more excited than ever. Now for some musings. I feel most alive at the edge of a crosswalk on a busy street. Since moving to my downtown I find myself leaning on…

  • Week 38. The Worst Day of My Life (Don’t Worry I’m Fine)

    Credit to @seventies70 on Tumblr for the image Dear Friend. It starts with the person I was messaging not messaging me anymore. I was coming to terms with it. It hurts and I don’t know what happened. Then my ex posted an Instagram story. “The secrets out.” I knew the whole time but Friday confirmed…

  • Week 37. Do I Take The Chance?

    Dear Friend. It has been a little over a month since I split from my partner of 7.5 years. They have since very much moved on. I’m not here to talk about them. There’s this new one, and I’m having trouble figuring myself out. So tonight Dear Friend, I reach out to you for help.…

  • Week 36. I Miss The Rain At My Old Place

    I miss the rain at my old place. It rained last night, I could have opened my window but I live on the bottom floor in a not so great neighborhood with no screen. My old place was on the second story with great big windows overlooking the parking lot. My favorite sound in the…

  • Week 35. January 29th 2026: A Night Out

    Dear Friend, I wanna tell you about my stood up date gone awry. I already knew it wasn’t going to work out. We had rescheduled the first time because of me and the second because of her. Finally I confirm earlier in the day to see if they were still coming and I don’t get…

  • Week 34.

    I’m late, Dear Friend, but only by a few hours. I’ve spent the last few hours desperately calling in favors and applying to various jobs. Right now I’m not working enough hours to break even. So I’m working everyone of my jobs as money hours as they’ll let me. My looming question that sits foreboding…

  • Week 33.

    “Theoretically you could also move laterally to a different area of rock bottom.” Yup, just did that. I can now count my friends on one hand Dear Friend. I don’t know who I am writing this to anymore. I’m going out tonight, somethings gonna happen, I can feel it. Something good has to happen. In…

  • Week 32. New Beginnings

    Dear Friend. I’m struggling to find the words for this. This last week I split up with my partner of 7+ years. My book that I was writing was for them and I’ve found nearly no motivation to continue it other than wanting to finish what I started. Life is different now and I’m viewing…

  • Week 31. End of the Year

    Dear Friend, It’s the last post of the year! With it comes an update on the book. I took a significant break to fix problems on earlier parts of the book. Then the holidays came around and I got busy. I have however returned to form and have finished working on the earlier stuff and…