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Category Archives: not horror

Goodbye to all that

November 14, 2024by Reliablyuncomfortable 2 Comments

If it’s true that everywhere you go there you are, it’s also true (for me anyway) that everywhere I’ve been, here I am

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Bird's Eye View, Essays, growing up midwestern, not horror, reflections

49 Tomorrows

October 28, 2023by Reliablyuncomfortable 3 Comments

The other day I clicked on a “calculate your life expectancy quiz”. After entering the data I clicked for the result. A kind of superstitious awe filled me. 60 This […]

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Bird's Eye View, but still uncomfortable, not horror, reflections

Hi Daddy

September 21, 2023by Reliablyuncomfortable 4 Comments

It’s me, Sandy. I like to write letters and one day I realized I never write letters to my own family, so sat down to write you this letter, and […]

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Bird's Eye View, growing up midwestern, love, not horror, reflections

A tale of two tweets

December 21, 2021by Reliablyuncomfortable Leave a comment

Scrolling through Twitter yesterday, two tweets stayed with me. One shows goth rocker Alice Cooper serving meals at a homeless shelter, but it wasn’t his rock and rollishness that stood […]

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Bird's Eye View, Essays, not horror

Tiny Signs of Life

August 19, 2021by Reliablyuncomfortable Leave a comment

Little signs of life in a big landscape.

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Bird's Eye View, Essays, not horror

So Long, And Thanks For All The Fish

January 20, 2021by Reliablyuncomfortable 2 Comments

What to do when a tyrant flies away for the last time? Make sure he’s gone.

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Bird's Eye View, Essays, not horror, reflections

Universal Basic Income and the Economic Reset the World Needs Now

May 16, 2020by Reliablyuncomfortable 3 Comments

  The 2008 financial crisis spurred a lot of people to think about money and the economy differently. Through different streams of events separated by ten years, Satoshi Nakamoto created Bitcoin — […]

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Bird's Eye View, Essays, not horror, reflections

Bluegrass and the Random Wonderful

October 8, 2019by Reliablyuncomfortable Leave a comment

I tend to avoid crowds successfully enough that I forget how being in one can so easily restore my optimism. One of the best things about San Francisco is Hardly […]

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Bird's Eye View, but still uncomfortable, growing up midwestern, love, not horror, reflections

Birthday Apocalyptica

September 21, 2019by Reliablyuncomfortable 4 Comments

I saw it was your birthday so I bought this card and felt the need to write a note in it – something beyond Happy birthday. Like, how I saw on the news that the hills are on fire again and five more species have been declared extinct and another glacier melted.

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Bird's Eye View, but still uncomfortable, climate, not horror, not horror, but still uncomfortable, reflections

One Funeral At a Time

April 7, 2019by Reliablyuncomfortable 2 Comments

Humans are diminishing the Earth’s resources far faster than nature or technology can possibly replace them. We can stop, anytime. But it seems we won’t, not without a revolution. I […]

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Bird's Eye View, but still uncomfortable, Essays, not horror

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