I write for myself. I write so that I might remember - who I am. I share so that you will know, you are NOT alone. https://touchstones.substack.com/ https://bsky.app/profile/touchstones.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/touchstones.bsky.social/post/3mm2er4z3ck27American me, I didn’t see “the rules”, my mind blanked out the signs (“sign, sign, everywhere a sign”). My mind moved me right past the signs, all the way to “GO, collect your two hundred dollars”. The music was “my draw”. (Please, please excuse me.) I like you - - - but I am - - - Not Like You. https://touchstones.substack.com/p/sign17 May 2026 12:35 +0000at://did:plc:5chs2vliw5fywlas6rr746xt/app.bsky.feed.post/3mm2er4z3ck27https://bsky.app/profile/touchstones.bsky.social/post/3mlih6q6nh22bHe asked us, “What’s up with great AGAIN”? “Why does America need to be - - - Great Again?” “America has always been great”, Yoshi said. https://touchstones.substack.com/p/yoshi10 May 2026 09:30 +0000at://did:plc:5chs2vliw5fywlas6rr746xt/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlih6q6nh22bhttps://bsky.app/profile/touchstones.bsky.social/post/3mkf5szohls2wNot everything. Not all the time. But - sometimes. More often than average, perhaps. We do things - - - the hard way. https://touchstones.substack.com/p/hard-way26 Apr 2026 08:40 +0000at://did:plc:5chs2vliw5fywlas6rr746xt/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkf5szohls2whttps://bsky.app/profile/touchstones.bsky.social/post/3mjc5wfks3k2oGood sex and good food. Yes Martha, the two overlap. My kind of Venn diagram. Real heaven here and now, while we live and breathe on this earth. Is there some way to combine the two? https://touchstones.substack.com/p/meat-dreams12 Apr 2026 10:38 +0000at://did:plc:5chs2vliw5fywlas6rr746xt/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjc5wfks3k2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/touchstones.bsky.social/post/3mitf72r5fs27Perfect [contains quote post or other embedded content]06 Apr 2026 13:39 +0000at://did:plc:5chs2vliw5fywlas6rr746xt/app.bsky.feed.post/3mitf72r5fs27https://bsky.app/profile/touchstones.bsky.social/post/3mi75gebgnc2hUno grande negro Cafe Americano for me, gracias. Plenty of benches on the street, where customers could sit and sip and eat - with all the local hoi and the polloi. (Frida, Diego and Leon) I loved it. Letter “A” plus, plus people watching. Nearly a perfect ten (diez). https://touchstones.substack.com/p/coyoacan29 Mar 2026 12:26 +0000at://did:plc:5chs2vliw5fywlas6rr746xt/app.bsky.feed.post/3mi75gebgnc2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/touchstones.bsky.social/post/3mh3smdcmns2xLike me, he went to school with his peers, and it wasn’t working out. Unlike me, he did not have a Ms. Matthews, a very special Teacher who took me and other misfit kids under her wing. She gave us (misfit little humans) - something - extra. https://touchstones.substack.com/p/no-words15 Mar 2026 11:09 +0000at://did:plc:5chs2vliw5fywlas6rr746xt/app.bsky.feed.post/3mh3smdcmns2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/touchstones.bsky.social/post/3mgka2qjvh22lIf water flowed uphill If the sky was green and not blue If dogs could talk If we could eat the wind https://touchstones.substack.com/p/together-d7608 Mar 2026 11:22 +0000at://did:plc:5chs2vliw5fywlas6rr746xt/app.bsky.feed.post/3mgka2qjvh22lhttps://bsky.app/profile/touchstones.bsky.social/post/3mfylylrows2eFree Range aka: fun with old lyrics https://touchstones.substack.com/p/free-range01 Mar 2026 11:08 +0000at://did:plc:5chs2vliw5fywlas6rr746xt/app.bsky.feed.post/3mfylylrows2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/touchstones.bsky.social/post/3mevqqcex4s22I think she knew. I believe that she caught wind of our schoolboy crush. I can’t imagine having to deal with us - little creeps. Ten and eleven years old boys, our last grade school year of - teacher crush. What a handful. Such a chore. https://touchstones.substack.com/p/sunny15 Feb 2026 14:30 +0000at://did:plc:5chs2vliw5fywlas6rr746xt/app.bsky.feed.post/3mevqqcex4s22https://bsky.app/profile/touchstones.bsky.social/post/3mdq3xrcq3k2iAll we need to know as the last adult in the room will be exiting soon. [contains quote post or other embedded content]31 Jan 2026 15:09 +0000at://did:plc:5chs2vliw5fywlas6rr746xt/app.bsky.feed.post/3mdq3xrcq3k2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/touchstones.bsky.social/post/3mdai4juyj22sLittle pieces of love. “Stuff” to help me - - - remember. https://touchstones.substack.com/p/stuff-f0c25 Jan 2026 10:04 +0000at://did:plc:5chs2vliw5fywlas6rr746xt/app.bsky.feed.post/3mdai4juyj22shttps://bsky.app/profile/touchstones.bsky.social/post/3md6ubxyock2vEpstein Files Distraction Plan - EFDP We know this is what they do, right? A weekly plan on the reality show to distract us. Look over here, not there. What do they have scheduled (for our entertainment) for this coming week? EFDP24 Jan 2026 18:37 +0000at://did:plc:5chs2vliw5fywlas6rr746xt/app.bsky.feed.post/3md6ubxyock2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/touchstones.bsky.social/post/3mc5rlltkh22jBINGO [contains quote post or other embedded content]11 Jan 2026 14:51 +0000at://did:plc:5chs2vliw5fywlas6rr746xt/app.bsky.feed.post/3mc5rlltkh22jhttps://bsky.app/profile/touchstones.bsky.social/post/3mblnnwfa622iIt's all related you understand When might makes right Release all of the Epstein files Transport me to a better place We deserve better Transport me https://touchstones.substack.com/p/transporter04 Jan 2026 09:52 +0000at://did:plc:5chs2vliw5fywlas6rr746xt/app.bsky.feed.post/3mblnnwfa622ihttps://bsky.app/profile/touchstones.bsky.social/post/3mb2kupmdh22dEarlier today, I walked into the bedroom and found Gerald (my bestie dog) curled up on my bed. We don’t do, not in our house, not anymore… dogs on people beds. (Dogs have dog beds, a bunch of them. And… people have people beds. Never the Twain are supposed to meet.) https://touchstones.substack.com/p/attention28 Dec 2025 14:47 +0000at://did:plc:5chs2vliw5fywlas6rr746xt/app.bsky.feed.post/3mb2kupmdh22dhttps://bsky.app/profile/touchstones.bsky.social/post/3maixcowfxs2jBig guy, curly flowing (I would kill for that) hair. His wrist is adorned with a multitude of narrow leather and beaded bracelets, which seems to be a hip thing du jour. Wrist bracelets for dudes. https://touchstones.substack.com/p/good-times21 Dec 2025 14:42 +0000at://did:plc:5chs2vliw5fywlas6rr746xt/app.bsky.feed.post/3maixcowfxs2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/touchstones.bsky.social/post/3madxteyqgs26What if we just tac “AI” onto the end of our business name, or toss a “six - seven” into the mix? Fake it, if you can’t make it. How about a crypto meme coin with our faces and business name, and our dogs’ pictures on it??? https://touchstones.substack.com/p/celebrate19 Dec 2025 15:08 +0000at://did:plc:5chs2vliw5fywlas6rr746xt/app.bsky.feed.post/3madxteyqgs26https://bsky.app/profile/touchstones.bsky.social/post/3m7xc6f33gk2eMy mind was being assaulted while my body received some much needed work. I came to wonder. Might I mix things up? Spin the wheel? Maybe do better? Find some better “bang” for my work the bod buck? (Oh yeah - and - Release the Epstein files. Release them now.) https://touchstones.substack.com/p/walking-to-mountains14 Dec 2025 14:08 +0000at://did:plc:5chs2vliw5fywlas6rr746xt/app.bsky.feed.post/3m7xc6f33gk2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/touchstones.bsky.social/post/3m7rwuamg7s25Woke up to Mark Cuban dunk tank day. If it makes you feel any better Mark, you're not my least favorite billionaire. People think it's easy being crazy rich? Well, it ain't. I'm still here for you bra. I feel your pain.12 Dec 2025 11:03 +0000at://did:plc:5chs2vliw5fywlas6rr746xt/app.bsky.feed.post/3m7rwuamg7s25https://bsky.app/profile/touchstones.bsky.social/post/3m7rvzhwl2k2gWould you want Clarice's Dad for a Farter In-law? I'd advise you to think twice Ru-Ru. You're famous now. Write a book. You can do better Rudolph. Rudolph (and the good Misfits) 2028! Run Rudolph... RUN.12 Dec 2025 10:48 +0000at://did:plc:5chs2vliw5fywlas6rr746xt/app.bsky.feed.post/3m7rvzhwl2k2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/touchstones.bsky.social/post/3m7pth3sk7s2rComing Attractions and they're truly scary. [contains quote post or other embedded content]11 Dec 2025 14:56 +0000at://did:plc:5chs2vliw5fywlas6rr746xt/app.bsky.feed.post/3m7pth3sk7s2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/touchstones.bsky.social/post/3m7fpyvn33c2ySnow angels, snowballs, snowmen, sleds and skis, I never did do snowshoes. Snow tires, big hunk - snow salt, shovels and snowblowers and ice scrappers and long aluminum devices designed to pull piled up snow from our roof on our house. https://touchstones.substack.com/p/snow07 Dec 2025 14:28 +0000at://did:plc:5chs2vliw5fywlas6rr746xt/app.bsky.feed.post/3m7fpyvn33c2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/touchstones.bsky.social/post/3m6tt7342b22qWhen Good People + Good Words + Good Action come together? What Could Be? What Could Be? https://touchstones.substack.com/p/what-could-be30 Nov 2025 11:37 +0000at://did:plc:5chs2vliw5fywlas6rr746xt/app.bsky.feed.post/3m6tt7342b22qhttps://bsky.app/profile/touchstones.bsky.social/post/3m6clckylb22cThe Wesleyan Chapel where David and Lucy were Signatories to a Declaration of Sentiments to promote Women’s Rights. A gathering of like minds. An effort - to move the ball down the field. To promote - a more perfect Union. https://touchstones.substack.com/p/hallowed-ground23 Nov 2025 15:01 +0000at://did:plc:5chs2vliw5fywlas6rr746xt/app.bsky.feed.post/3m6clckylb22chttps://bsky.app/profile/touchstones.bsky.social/post/3m5quknmsdc2hGrowing up, I always knew this town on the north end of one of the lakes, everyone knew it had status (bank). But if my memory is correct, I don’t recall it being so “out front”, in my face. I recall more of a low-key feeling. https://touchstones.substack.com/p/castles16 Nov 2025 13:58 +0000at://did:plc:5chs2vliw5fywlas6rr746xt/app.bsky.feed.post/3m5quknmsdc2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/touchstones.bsky.social/post/3m57ca6uz3227I took a time machine. I went back in time to my “Dream Comfort Memory” place. It’s not in North Ontario, but it’s not so very much far away from there. https://touchstones.substack.com/p/helpless09 Nov 2025 14:15 +0000at://did:plc:5chs2vliw5fywlas6rr746xt/app.bsky.feed.post/3m57ca6uz3227https://bsky.app/profile/touchstones.bsky.social/post/3m4laknalsc2w(Don’t let all the lights go out - America.) Too dark. Too dark to see. More lights please. More light. https://touchstones.substack.com/p/light01 Nov 2025 14:52 +0000at://did:plc:5chs2vliw5fywlas6rr746xt/app.bsky.feed.post/3m4laknalsc2whttps://bsky.app/profile/touchstones.bsky.social/post/3m442uix6i22hSecond best holiday of the year when I was a kid. (The second fun-est day of the year.) Halloween https://touchstones.substack.com/p/kids-candy26 Oct 2025 14:00 +0000at://did:plc:5chs2vliw5fywlas6rr746xt/app.bsky.feed.post/3m442uix6i22h