Writing the Past

The Corners of my Mind: Unexploded Christmas Memory-Ordnance

Everything by The Paltry Sum: Detroit RichardsDecember 20, 2022December 20, 2022

DARVO, PTSD, Damage and Not Being Able To Accept Love

Everything by The Paltry Sum: Detroit RichardsJune 14, 2022July 27, 2022

Heat

Everything by The Paltry Sum: Detroit RichardsJune 12, 2022June 12, 2022

Things to do in Tokyo When You Are Trapped: Eating in Nice Restaurants With Holey Socks

Everything by The Paltry Sum: Detroit RichardsMay 17, 2022May 18, 2022

Gambling With The Future

Everything by The Paltry Sum: Detroit RichardsMay 16, 2022May 16, 2022

Lost in Tokyo Translation

Everything by The Paltry Sum: Detroit RichardsMay 12, 2022May 12, 2022

In Praise of the Boy. One Year Ago Today

Everything by The Paltry Sum: Detroit RichardsOctober 28, 2021

Everything by The Paltry Sum: Detroit RichardsOctober 27, 2021

A Year On From The Non Malicious Line

Tomorrow marks the one year anniversary of leaving the road: leaving the beastie, leaving the campgrounds and the parking lots, the mountain passes and the lakeside watery casket of life on the northern west coast; leaving Billy, leaving behind all the hopes and dreams and stupid ideals of love and comradeship. Leaving certainty, even if […]

I Used To Dance In The Purple Rain

Everything by The Paltry Sum: Detroit RichardsOctober 4, 2021October 4, 2021

Everything by The Paltry Sum: Detroit RichardsSeptember 27, 2021February 26, 2023

Another Planet

There is a pit of grief and guilt and pain that is so smooth sided it is impossible to climb out of. I don’t know if I will be able to scrabble up the sides today. Instead I am going to try and just survive it. Stop struggling, stop climbing and give in to it. […]