It's easy to think that I have always been bullied in my life when I was younger. It wasn’t always like that, but it feels like it. High school was hard for me. Heck, school was hard for me. I believe I missed around 122 days of school during my high school career. Saying that’s… Continue reading Trust Me, This Is About You- blog
Category: Bloggy
Precipice – blog
It’s strange when you stop to think about how tenuous so many of our friendships have become. We are connected, those people we know by memory, and those we just know by face, through our social networks and little else. We are connected through the spiderwebs of the digital world, sharing our photos, our… Continue reading Precipice – blog
Re-Built, This City- blog
I mentioned it a bit ago on one of my podcasts how the city I live in and love, Flint, has some money coming its way. Some of that money is from the water crisis – though most of that SHOULD go to the people, but we’ll see – and then there’s money that… Continue reading Re-Built, This City- blog
What Do You Know? – blog
Are you like me and really, really feel like parents that make a scene about what their kids are learning should have to pass some sort of competency test before the matter moves forward? Am I crazy? Naw. I doubt it. Now, I am sure that through the ages there have been parents who have… Continue reading What Do You Know? – blog
Two Years Later – blog
Today is a special and strange day for my family. It was two years ago that our daughter began her journey to us, and we began the final leg of our IVF journey. I remember the day still, and how scared and excited we were. It was a miserably hard process for my wife –… Continue reading Two Years Later – blog
The Sordid Shoot For The Cover Of My Book ARE WE MONSTERS?
New Book Update – blog
Oh, hey, what's going on? Happy, er, uh...Spwinter? That weird place where it's winter but starting to become spring. Oh, such a fun time. As 2022 keeps rolling onward and the seven seals keep getting released one by one I find myself knee deep in the edit for the new book. I had hoped to… Continue reading New Book Update – blog
Oooh, Updated Podcast Art
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Are We Monsters – sample
There are several stories in ARE WE MONSTERS but I wanted to post a sample of one of them to give an idea of what you'll find inside. This excerpt is from a story called 'Fearful Thing' about a young woman's willingness to face something horrifying in order to seek its aid. Some things only… Continue reading Are We Monsters – sample
Changing the Record
There is something painfully insidious about the banal ways we are homogenizing and corporatizing cities. Something sad that we are so desperate to erase the character of our cities, to make them the same in every way possible so that we feel some sort of safety and comfort that we could find in other ways.… Continue reading Changing the Record
Eighteen Months – blog
Since Covid hit its stride in March of 2020 I had been out of the office I work at for eighteen months. Eighteen. I still remember the days leading to that day – Things were suddenly getting more and more dire in the country, despite the protestations of the President to the contrary. Internally our… Continue reading Eighteen Months – blog
Purity – blog
I have been a movie geek since I was a kid. There was a time in my life, living in a small town near to a slightly larger town, where I’d go to the movies all the time. In retrospect I saw a lot of trash. I loved going to the movies though. I was… Continue reading Purity – blog
Faded Glory – blog
It’s strange to think back through the years of my education and history classes and to consider how true the words would ring through, truer and truer over time – history is written by the victors. So much of American history has been redacted and whitewashed to show the best side of our culture… Continue reading Faded Glory – blog
The Spooky World of Chris Ringler 