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Ode To An Old Friend
He was always happy and full of life and fearless and resilient... and he was never sick. Ever. The post Ode To An Old Friend appeared first on The Hermit Chronicles.
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Of Poignance & Bucket Lists
It’s interesting how seemingly casual, light-hearted conversations can sometimes take on lives of their own and wind up in places that were never intended. I suppose it happens often enough to be no...
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A Beached Hermit
As I write this, the temperatures outside hover in the 20s and 30s and the ground is covered with a thin layer of snow and ice. The post A Beached Hermit appeared first on The Hermit Chronicles.
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A Bright New Star Shines In Heaven
On June 30th, 2019, after a mercifully-brief and terribly unforgiving illness, Denise passed away in a hospital bed somewhere in Brooklyn New York. I don’t know when she was born, I don’t know where in...
View ArticleChanneling Sweet Baby James
I came of age in the 70s and was fortunate to have been exposed to James Taylor early in his career. Even though I grew to prefer loud smash mouth music, Sweet Baby James was always the go-to...
View ArticleA Tricky Tricycle Caper
My birthday came and went a few weeks ago, quietly and with little fanfare as birthdays should be once you have fallen headlong into your twilight years. And, the older I get the more I appreciate the...
View ArticlePerception v. Reality
So Begins the category I have lovingly named “Hattie Matters” in honor of this gray little bundle of love and terror that came into mine and Daisy’s life in October of 2018. My great-grandmother’s...
View ArticleCOVID-19 & The Death Of A Furtive Way Of Life
It seems to me that the greatest things in life are the ones nobody else is doing. And as history instructs, with almost no exception, every attempt to improve on the original falls terribly and...
View ArticleThe COVID-19 School Of Higher Learning
It’s fair to say that change is not always pleasant or welcome in life, especially when it is forced upon us – in many cases – against our will. There can be no greater example of this than the current...
View ArticleBeing A Kid Is A State Of Mind
The state of affairs in the New World Order of pandemic pandemonium has, in no small way, altered the very fabric of human existence. All the nooks and little crannies of day-to-day life bring with...
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A Hermit Retreat
When you consider the standard stereotype associated with people that declare themselves to be a ‘Hermit’, it is a bit oxymoronic to suggest that such a person would go on a vacation into the...
View ArticleThe Chime Of Zen
I can attest to the fact that this statement is true: life’s simplest pleasures are the most soul-enriching and life-fulfilling. And I say as much because, as someone long ago relegated to the slow...
View ArticleLife Is… Complicated
People told me I should start putting this shit down on paper… so I did. My grandmother, God rest her, always used to say, “believe half of what you see and none of what you hear”. It is an expression...
View ArticleA Lovely Ride
All my life, I have been a “quotes” guy. What I mean by that is that whenever I come across just the right combination of words, they stick in my head and stay with me as if they have become part of my...
View ArticleThe Coronapocalyptic Incursion On Furtive Living
I have always been a big fan of the word “furtive.” For one thing, it just sounds cool. For another, its definition is related to the idea of being secretive about doing something that, if caught,...
View ArticleThe Company We Keep
Technically, an essay worth its salt starts with an introductory paragraph intended to set the general tone for what follows in the body of the work. Admittedly a mere amateur at this craft (an effort...
View ArticleA Hermit Battery Recharge
I honestly can’t say for sure why it is that I am drawn to bodies of water. Though not much of a believer in the whole Astrology thing, the fact that I am a Pisces suggests that the alignment of the...
View ArticleA Blind Old Guy Walks Into A Bar…
…sits down and orders a shot of Jack and whatever cheap beer they have on tap. Dispensing with Jack, he takes a baby sip of the beer to rinse the palate and, like he always does, he takes in the crowd...
View ArticleHer Name Is Beatrice
Since the dawn of humankind, certainly, no later than when we started praying to Gods (Sun, Moon, Stars, and so on), we have given these things names. 300,000 years later, more or less, there is...
View ArticleIf I’d Written A COVID Diary
The lede would have been, “Day 1: Dear Diary, what in the actual fuck?” While my brain was catching some z’s last night, filing away random shit that will come back to visit me in future dreams that...
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