No Rest For The Wicked

I don’t write fiction…

  • Raising My Price

    Raising My Price

    It’s not always about money

    2025 was an incredibly challenging year for me.

    Right out the gate my best friend, Monique, dies of MS. At exactly the same time, things with Jared spin dangerously out of control, forcing me to step away from him temporarily. But we weren’t done, fate had other ideas. I got really sick and then rolled an ankle walking down stairs and became grievously injured. The wizard might be broken and crazy but he’s still a wizard. Aside from that, I promised I would not abandon him. I went back to Jared.

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  • A Word On Acceptance

    A Word On Acceptance

    Believe what you see.

    Word to the wise, you can only ever trust someone to be themselves.

    When they show you who they are, believe them – even if it conflicts with who you wanted them to be.

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  • The Attention Whore

    The Attention Whore

    For God sake, everyone please shut up.

    The worst part about you-know-who being president, again, is..well, everything. But aside from the rampant stupidity, endless lies, war crimes, pedophilia, incoherent babbling, and unmitigated audacity – the worst part about him being president is everyone else.

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  • An Unpopular Oracle

    An Unpopular Oracle

    A lesson from the 10 of Pentacles

    Sometimes the real work we’re called to on to perform has nothing to do with our job. When we feel put out and frustrated by an older relative demanding help with a menial task, or a friend having a life crisis; when the demand for our time, attention and wisdom makes us feel angry or resentful because of the “work” we’re not getting done, it’s important to consider which “work” it is we’re actually called on to do.

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  • Spirits in the Material World

    Spirits in the Material World

    Two weeks ago I had a dream about Alphonse that was not a dream.

    My dogs had woke me up to go outside around 5:15am and I got back to sleep around 5:30.

    It’s likely that Alphonse was already awake at this time.

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  • Year of the Dragon

    Year of the Dragon

    As 2024 draws to a close, this Year of the Dragon did not disappoint. My journey has delivered new characters, new stories and, perhaps most importantly, new opportunities to study the human condition that I find endlessly fascinating.

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  • Unfinished Business

    Unfinished Business

    Jared: part 3

    After our previous discussion there were still a lot of things I needed to say to Jared. I was caught off guard and unprepared and wanted to make sure that I hadn’t misrepresented myself. He arrived late to our networking meeting the following week and I met him at the door saying, “Don’t leave after this”. He nodded and went to find a place to sit.

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  • Rule #1

    Rule #1

    Jared: part 2

    Know with whom you fucketh.

    Our follow up coffee talk didn’t happen immediately. Sensing that it would be a  point of no return, I was reluctant to schedule it at first. When I was younger, I would do things just for the scandal and to have something to write about. Now, in my older age and with higher stakes, I don’t make a move without a personally compelling reason. So many weeks had gone by marked with awkward verbal exchanges and unanswered texts that I became convinced I had made the whole thing up. 

    Except I didn’t.

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  • Face To Face With The Doctor

    Face To Face With The Doctor

    Jared: part 1

    I met a boy. I knew him for a while actually, but we didn’t know each other at all.

    We were in a professional organization. He was there and I was there but his name had too many vowels and I never learned it. 

    He is a military combat veteran turned doctor of mind fuckery and headmaster of a rehab school for young wizards. Injured in the call of duty and recipient of a purple heart, he runs his business like if a swarm of army ants were an entrepreneur. Handsome and fit, he looks fine on the outside but looks can be deceiving.

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  • What’s Your Elephant?

    What’s Your Elephant?

    It’s been said that to carve an elephant from a block of wood, all one needs to do is cut away everything that does not resemble an elephant.

    It would not do to lament the corners of the block or the shavings of wood that are cut away. They are not elephant shaped, so why would you want them?

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