If you’re a middle-class white person quietly doing your time serving the machine of America, you probably don’t care very much about the militarization of our police force. You’re white. You have a 401K. You work hard all day and…
Some days I want to rip this world apart and step through to the sea. *** Jim Mitchem
Today I turn 50. And whether I like it or not–it’s a big deal. Sure, from a distance you can say how age is just a number and how time doesn’t really exist and how 50 is the new 40…
Saw the movie ‘Her’ last night. Was weird, but good – in a ‘Being John Malkovich’ sort of way. My wife and I differ on what we think happens at the end, though. She thinks that everyone finds themselves and then reconnects…
23 years ago today I was so drunk that I don’t even remember it. I was at the end of my rope. As you probably know, Minor King is semi-autobiographical fiction. In telling the backstory of the main character, I…
I’ll be 50 next week. In thinking about my accomplishments so far in life, it recently dawned on me that I currently have no “goals” to shoot for. It’s not that I’m anti-goals, but rather that I’ve done everything I’ve ever set…
Writer. Father to daughters. Husband. Ad man. Raised by wolves. 
