Category Archives: Rolling Around In My Head doing damns the darkness/ A Blog By Dave Hingsburger

Photo Description: Close up photo of a gentle faced doberman /German shepherd mix   Right now, as I’m writing this, Lucy is sitting beside me. It’s taking a long time to type these words. You see right now, Lucy has decided that her need for affection and affirmation is the only thing I should be […]

Photo Description: Three maple leaves one brown, one yellow and one red are placed over the words “Happy Thanksgiving. Credit: This work was found on the internet here: https://dayslee.ca/2017/10/07/happy-thanksgiving-day-canada/ Today we vote. The advance polls open just a little after breakfast time. Joe and I are away, in Edmonton, on the day of the election so […]

The last item was scanned and the clerk turned to me and asked, “All ready for Thanksgiving now?” I looked over the bounty packed in bags; turnips, carrots, potatoes, acorn squash, the Tofurkey roasts, and was about to say that we needed not a thing more, we were ready, when I noticed the store had […]

I hear a lot of straight people congratulating themselves on the presidential run of Pete Buttigieg. Even here in Canada people who speak of the American election often borrow from what they hear on American television, “It’s a sign of how far we’ve come.” We? We? Who is ‘we’? Joe and I have been following […]

I am a believer in fiction. In the power of stories, true or not, to change our lives or change our perspectives.. I have a friend who only reads non-fiction and believes that non-fiction books are ‘education’ and what I read is ‘entertainment.’ But we’ve dropped the subject between us because neither was budging. Books, […]

I had been requested by a woman with Down Syndrome that I had come into acquaintance with to attend a meeting with her father and her sister. Her mother had passed away a few years earlier and the passage through grief had brought them all closer together. There was resistance to my being there, but […]

Several of the hotels that we stayed in over the last few days on the road to and from St. Louis had renovated or ‘updated’. They all looked great, but looks can be very deceiving. In the first one I got off the elevator to turn towards the room and sank into porridge soft carpet. […]

We were having lunch at a small cafe in a mall near the hotel in which we were staying. The food court was a few feet down and around the corner from us. We we chatting over our meal when Joe’s face froze. He said quietly to someone other than me, “Put the fucking phone […]

We’d had dinner in a packed restaurant, with waitstaff that had no idea how to sit a disabled customer, and were on our way out. I came through the / doors and saw that a huge truck had used the cut curb to pull back up into a parking space to unload and store equipment […]