The Spooky World of Chris Ringler
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I find that in thinking about what to write for this blog, what to say about the best dog I could imagine, my mind goes to the end. His end. My mind goes to the idea that we offer pets a dignity that humans are not afforded - an end to the suffering. An end… Continue reading Goodbye to a Good Boy
When I write my political blogs, like this one is, I understand that I am writing them for myself. The people that agree with me already agree with me. Those that don’t are not going to be swayed.That’s how it works. I get that. Frankly, our beliefs and convictions should be strong enough that a… Continue reading A Deep Breath
Three cheers for the trash. Let’s celebrate the trash, shall we? The things that we love that others deride and hate. The art, the music, the movies, the books, the television, the whatever it is that makes our hearts sing and brings ridicule from those around us. Let us raise a glass and toast these… Continue reading Trash
About eight years ago my wife and I fell in love. Not with each other, that had already happened, but with this big fella. He was a rescue husky that we fell in love with at first sight. His name was Ranger and we didn't want to make it too hard for him to learn… Continue reading We Need Your Help
It’s a natural part of getting older that we start to think about the end. Especially when a marital partner and kids enter the equation. In all honesty, it becomes a heavier and heavier burden as we age because we begin to see the people we love leaving us, whether we’re ready for them to… Continue reading Peace
Too many lonely nights I think of you. I sit in the blackness of my mind and conjure you with dark magic. I call you forth from yellowed memories, like photos in the sun. You are less than a ghost, a memory of a memory, the feel of you like cobwebs along my skin. The… Continue reading Re-live – a poem
It’s hard not to feel in the past few years that society has become a powder keg. We are seeing racism slink out of the shadows, bigotry be embraced by political candidates, and hate is being used as a battering ram against those that call for equality. More people are turning to violence as a… Continue reading Powder Keg
It really is a wonder that children are as generally reasonable as they are considering what surrounds them. Adults have not only killed civility but we have pulled it apart, buried it, and then urinated on its grave. It would seem that as adults force children to grow up at a younger and younger age… Continue reading Down, Down, Down We Go
It’s hard to accurately reckon the effect someone has on you and your life. Outside of the obvious - he helped get me a job, she introduced me to the love of my life, they did this or that or whatever. That fact is that we don’t always know how deeply we are affected by… Continue reading The Legacies We Leave
It’s when our minds are off of our minds when some of our deepest thinking comes to us. Some of it welcome, and some of it not. Some thoughts sneaking in like unwanted visitors in the night, clumsily moving through the darkness, not caring if they wake us or not. I was driving my daughter… Continue reading Guest Stars
I tend to wonder anymore if we remember what it was like to fall in love with the things we love. In our rush to have everything at our fingertips at all times I think that convenience has made us lazy in how we consume the things we get an itch to hear, read, or… Continue reading Do You Remember Falling In Love?
I think we all have had times in our lives when we had to move on, whether we liked it or not. When we usually think of this phrase – moving on – we think of romantic ‘entanglements’ we have had. We loved and lost. We loved and let go. We loved and had someone… Continue reading When You Move On Without Me
In which I talk about the film RENT-A-PAL and how it reminds me of my dating days.
The Spooky World of Chris Ringler 