No. 148 - What They Don’t Tell You at the Turn
1,145 Words. 5 Minute Read.
I am forty-five years old – it’s safe to say I’ve officially made the turn. If I were at Peachtree Golf Club, I’d be staring down the fairway on number ten — an expansive checkerboard gulley that rises to a plateau, where a pin flag waits, roughly 500 yards away — with tears in my eyes, knowing half of my life has vanished.
Guest Writer: Christiana Roussel
This is a first in a series of guest writers at The Bohemian Capitalist.
Christiana Roussel is a writer from Birmingham, AL.
No. 144 - The Caro Epiphany: A Lesson from LBJ’s Lineage
865 Words. 4 Minute Read.
As I read about Sam Johnson, LBJ’s father, I took a hard stop and wrote, in all caps, AM I THIS MAN? in the middle of the page.
No. 143 - (Ghost) Riders in the Veins
449 Words. 2 Minute Read.
It’s eight-thirty in the evening, and I’m settling into a thick plug of tobacco in my left cheek. Why left, you ask? I don’t know—it’s where I place my chew. Always have. In fact, using the right side of my mouth would be like asking me to throw a football left-handed.
No. 142 - Regret Spectacles: A Field Guide
906 Words. 4 Minute Read.
These glasses were created in a cabalistic cave by mystics—in fact, they can bend the spacetime continuum—they allow you to see into the future, but more importantly, they let you feel the future.