I’ve always been an archaeologist at heart, ever since I was a small child gleaning clues from old dump sites in the backwoods of Northern California. It’s not surprising that when I went to college I chose Anthropology as my course of study. And it’s equally unsurprising that I continue this obsession to this day, …
Date of Visit: January 26, 2013 My friends and I got together in Wisconsin for an excursion to several different locations on Saturday, January 26, 2013. On the agenda was an abandoned nursing home, and a few old farmhouses. Most of the day turned out to be kind of a dud… except for one of …
Date: January 20, 2013 You may not know this about me, but I have a long history of mental illness. I suffer from severe depression, which has resulted in a history of suicide attempts, self-mutilation, and other self-destructive behavior. I’m medicated now, so I’m mostly okay, but I still have seasonal depression that plunges me …
Date of Visit: December 22, 2012 Okay, I confess – I’m a hopeless sentimentalist. After my parents died, I went through my childhood home and searched every nook and cranny, looking at old cancelled checks, receipts, insurance policies, manuals to long-lost television sets, blueprints for the house, etc. – gleaning every little tiny piece of …