cast out

honestly, i was expecting a call about trouble yesterday.
but it came today instead.
wayward son has been cast out of the bosom of the family down south for almost immediately hitting the coke. apparently, he used to stash it in the grandparents house so he could retrieve it on visits.  when that was exhausted he used [...]

a plea agreement

wayward son submitted a formal plea via a marathon telephone call to the common father and elder ma this past tuesday.  return to his homestead has been granted on a trial basis. he leaves for the swampland this weekend.
it has been a dramatic week.
plus i have been working 12 hour days for what seems like [...]

Picture of “A Mermaid” by John William Waterhouse, 1905

Much like sirens, mermaids would sometimes sing to sailors and enchant them, distracting them from their work and causing them to walk off the deck or run their ships aground.

Other stories have them squeezing the life out of drowning men while attempting to rescue them. They are also said to take humans down to their [...]

the girl

so
the wayward son got carried south by his trusty R this weekend to visit the homestead. the same bosom of the family that declared all inheritance of said homestead null for both of them. remember one is a mo and the other a felon – just how would that look after all.
but that it is [...]

accomplishments

small ones build a foundation and should not be underestimated.
i saw a story on the national news last night about a 72 year old man that lives on park avenue and got there by selling potato peelers off a box top on the streets in manhattan.  he said something like ‘never underestimate a small amount of [...]