by Noon | Dec 30, 2025 | Musings
With Christmas winding down, I finally feel the hustle of the holidays settling to a point where I can take a breath of air without inhaling the cumulative stress of the season. My son is still out of school, which means mostly finding ways to interrupt the deluge of...
by Noon | Dec 11, 2025 | Places
The gods heard my bitching and decided my birthday week would most certainly not have the inhospitable dreariness of a DMV waiting room. Instead, with temperatures flirting with numbers usually reserved for Leonardo DiCaprio’s ex-girlfriends, we slid into the last...
by Noon | Dec 1, 2025 | Gear & Goods
I wouldn’t call myself a writer, which is ironic considering I decided to start a blog. But we can’t all be Agatha Christie; some of us trudge around in the swamp of mediocrity and call ourselves “content creators.” Still, I have my little artistic habits: collecting...
by Noon | Nov 25, 2025 | Musings
My birthday is next week and I’m trying to wrap up as many projects as possible before the holidays swallow my attention whole. Between the hectic moments, finding any kind of solace outside feels nearly impossible. Today it’s raining, the wind cuts, and the evening...
by Noon | Nov 17, 2025 | Places
I live close to downtown Beaver, but somehow I always forget it exists. When you live in the armpit of the county, you tend to flee to the usual distractions: Downtown Pittsburgh, the Strip, even Cranberry now that it has leveled up beyond Applebee’s. But here’s the...