Personal – The Barberry Writers

1938

There is little to no room for nuance on social media. Social sites are a catch-all for interaction, entertainment and distraction. They are, by design, for snippets and quickly digestible things. Yet, as is human nature, we still use them to make social or political points that usually beg for more details than a tweetContinue reading “1938”

3/∞

By the reckoning of every top google search result, the appropriate gift to celebrate a third wedding anniversary is leather. They each, seemingly copying and pasting from each other, explain that the leather anniversary marks the time when a marriage has reached its first stages of strength. Leather is durable and long-lasting while still beingContinue reading “3/∞”

Columbus

This is not necessarily a space for political writing. It’s not not a space for it either. But we still try to keep it apolitical in a bid to focus on writing and rhetoric and, increasingly, our own lives. Inevitably, however, there’s going to be crossover. Today’s blurring of the apolitical lines is spurred onContinue reading “Columbus”

A little writing about my Grandad and the music of John Prine

The first time I heard John Prine was while working at a used media store in Wichita, KS. Every month we were required to go through the mind numbingly boring task of taking inventory of everything in the store and solving any discrepancies. The one thing that made this job bearable was loading up theContinue reading “A little writing about my Grandad and the music of John Prine”

Memer Refuted

Here is a meme that popped up on my dad’s Facebook page. We all see tons of these everyday, but because it was shared by my father and because I want to promote open-mindedness (or at least sound debate) in the people I admire, it seemed appropriate to look at all of the claims madeContinue reading “Memer Refuted”

The Alphabet Ends at Y

I have a part time gig at a bookstore, usually working on weekends and the occasional weekday evening shift. I have worked in bookstores in some capacity for over a decade because of a personality quirk that I share with others that makes us “bookstore people.” As vague an explanation as that is, it’s theContinue reading “The Alphabet Ends at Y”

Avowed

On October 13, 2017, I married one of my best friends in the world and started an exciting new chapter of my life. Just like everyone told me, it was weeks of hard work and planning for a blur of a day that we’ll mostly remember through photographs. Even the next morning, as my newContinue reading “Avowed”

The Time Management Massacre

Halloween is fast approaching and I, for one, am really excited. My daughter is going as a princess butterfly. A princess butterfly is what happens when a four year old smashes two concepts that she likes together and it becomes its own thing, like this video I saw online where someone made a ham andContinue reading “The Time Management Massacre”

Write With Urgency

I had this great idea for a post. Every night my wife and I read our daughter a couple of books before bedtime. It used to be one book, but that little sneak somehow negotiated her way into two stories a night. That’s fourteen stories a week. Sixty picture books every month. Our library receiptContinue reading “Write With Urgency”

The Write Time (Ugh. Really? A Pun?)

My wife granted me the ultimate gift for a parent of two small children, several hours of blissful solitude. Grabbing my laptop and car keys I drove down to the Barnes and Noble Cafe where I sat in a corner drinking a sugary latte. My intention was to take these few precious hours and hammerContinue reading “The Write Time (Ugh. Really? A Pun?)”