Yugoslavia enters the conversation …

Scenes from a morning frostbite hike 🥶

Look what arrived in the mail today — my new chapbook of poems!! It’s always a special day when that box arrives and you hold the book in your hands for the first time.

We had a good run

Ok, so maybe some chatbots are not so bad after all

I’m increasingly coming around to the idea that a new dark age is inevitable, pockets of normalcy here and there notwithstanding, with how long it will last and how bad it will get being the only unknowns.

I have some news — a new chapbook of poems from yours truly is forthcoming in January 2026 and I couldn’t be more excited!! 🙌🏼

Back into the breach we go! #fallsemester

Had a garden visitor today

Garden report 👨🏻‍🌾

Happy 4th of July

Baba Vanga in the news 🙌🏼👵🏼🔮 timesofindia.indiatimes.com/astrology/zo...

First full day of summer 2025 garden report

It’s summer time and the reading is easy

Looking forward to the Flyover Finals™️

Grades are turned in! 🙌🏼 Now, what to do with wild and unruly summer time? 🤔

Simic’s grandma knew

Really enjoying this book from @roadsidepress.bsky.social

Thousands of people packed Market Square in Cleveland, OH today for the #HandsOff protest!

Around the yard this morning

Doing a bit of public philosophy, a short course on philosophy of technology for the 55+ crowd

“We all live inside this brutal, loud, limitlessly stupid soap opera now, where each and every institution you might have valued, with whatever misgiving, can be seen sliding toward a ruined and more or less unviable version of itself.” www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

A sobering read on the non-academic (and academic) job market for philosophy graduates

I saw a few seconds of it, but I just cannot watch the rest of that utterly horrific scene with Zelensky in the White House today

Definitely not liking the New Dark Age

As the world burns, I am thoroughly enjoying, and learning a lot from, @shannonvallor.bsky.social’s “The AI Mirror”

Thanks to editor @oneldammit.bsky.social and the literary underground for making a home for this little poem of mine. theliteraryunderground.org/blog/2025/02...

Yes, this is the upcoming logical tipping point — and also, how all of these different law enforcement agencies (federal, state, county, local) agree or disagree … and not even accounting for the other various armed psycho groups itching for a fight

This 👇🏼

Can confirm

Nothing to be too alarmed about, I’m sure 😐

Had a wonderful time at the artist reception for the Winter Juried Exhibition at the Cuyahoga Valley Art Center last night — and a sale is always a welcome surprise! (That’s my eco print at the top)

One year ago today, my little book of poems was released into the world! Thanks to @oneldammit.bsky.social and @roadsidepress.bsky.social !!

Deep into “Notes of a Native Son” now

This appears to be the case, yes

The crazy things you’ll find in antique stores these days

Yes

Good, practical advice

Our great frozen Lake Erie

It’s not treason day or insurrection day, but Badnji Dan and Badnje Veče! 🪵🎄

Winter ❄️

I read roughly 30 books in 2024, and looking back, these were my favorites (including books by @emilyherring.bsky.social and @helendecruz.net)

Xmas gift from my neighbor

Winter

student protest movement in serbia, letter to students around the world

Any Balkaners out there ever hear of this brand?

After finishing @emilyherring.bsky.social’s evocative biography of Bergson, I’m moving on to this short banger with the trippy 1970s cover

Submitted grades for fall semester and celebrated with a shot of some homemade sour cherry liqueur (2021 vintage) and making a pot of chili, as one does

Setting myself up for great success!! 🙌🏼

Thoughts and prayers 🙏🏼