Tag: life

  • Do you have this luxury?

    OK here goes, Old Jack is going to dig in deep on this one. What items can be considered a luxury? I guess that would depend on who you are and where you are. Living in the United States, I fear we consider many luxuries to be necessities. When I was a young child, my…

  • A Road to Disappointment

    Your old buddy Jack doesn’t usually post thoughts on the daily prompt. Being a minimalist he finds this one particularly irksome. If I may, I shall indulge in a short rant. Jack is no longer a young man, and though he needs glasses to read, he can see the forest for the trees. Rather than…

    automobiles commute on a bridge cast in shadow of the sun overhead.
  • Keep Moving

    The back injury was worse. I always had back trouble, but long periods of sitting at my new job had exacerbated the problem. Now I was in intense pain, and could barely walk. I researched everything. Ice, heat, surgery, drugs. What was the answer? No one I’d spoken with told me that surgery was a…

    two cyclists on a wet black road pedal towards the top right corner of the frame. Green trees and shrubs frame the picture behind them.