About this blog

As long as I could write, I've been writing "for fun." First privately in childhood journals and .doc files saved on a dial-up era desktop. Then publicly during my 20s blogging heyday. Here's a sample of my musings, plucked from different ages and posted in a non-linear timeline.

The blog title, “It’s Always Something,” is one of my father’s favorite sayings. It refers to life’s capacity for infinite setbacks. You're stalked by a mob of cats. You transport bed bugs from Belgrade to Oxford. You inadvertently provoke a social media feud with John Stamos.  It’s always something, and my blog posts are about those somethings.

Everything I write is at least “based on a true story.” Some things happened just like that, some things happened sort of like that, and some things would happen like that, but never really did. I embellish events for comic relief. I turn real individuals into characters. Don’t take this too seriously.

It is my calling to produce an amusing, insignificant memoir that people will read in the bathroom.  I realize that this will get me fired, not hired, and out of favor with those involved.  But with one’s destiny cometh suffering!  I learned that from Frodo and Jesus.