World of McCool

When I close my eyes to meditate, I am on a flat rock in a stream. The cool waters are only inches deep, and they bubble out of the earth directly behind me and to my left. I breathe deep and hear the trickle of that fresh water as it begins its course […]

I woke up this morning with no way to hold my head that didn’t hurt. Sunday morning came down on me hard, with blurred memories from the night before flashing non-sequentially through my throbbing head. What a damn night. It’s been a while since I’ve partied, so my body was keenly sensitive […]

I pretty much suck at relationships. I love women, and I never can seem to resist the company of the really good ones who invite me into their lives, but I suck at being for them what want. (It’s like a very long race that requires you to sprint the whole way.) […]

It was probably back in 01 or 02 when Justin Jared and I checked out the amphitheater they built out there off 1604. We were all in town hanging out, it was summer time. Justin and I had recently discovered that the open air stage was very easy to access from its southern […]

I noticed there was some traffic coming from a Jared site, which I find amusing. That story was posted against the counsel of my mother, and is, I know, a bit scandelous. But man, if it wasn’t an awesome weekend.
I spent quite a few weekends with Jared and his brother and […]

Fate and circumstance have again moved me from the Duplex I’ve been living in with Shannon back to the Slanty Shanty, my good friend Travis’ 95 year old house. It’s good, I suppose, to have one last stint in the Slanty (which is, if you don’t know, a house of legend) before its demolition […]