R. T. Coleman
On Doing Our Shitty Best...
“You can’t give up on us. Yes, in general, human beings are — shitty. But we do our shitty best.” A dear friend inspired these lines...
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R. T. Coleman
- Jul 22, 2022
- 2 min
Still the One
Joe and I spent our anniversary this year apart. He’s on the road, I’m on the farm. Both of us working as hard as we can to put together...
R. T. Coleman
- Jan 5, 2022
- 3 min
Book Review: The Name of the Wind
It’s been a minute. Losing my brother Rick was the hardest thing I’ve experienced in my life. So I took a lot of time away. I muddled...
R. T. Coleman
- Aug 29, 2021
- 3 min
The Rickest Rick that ever Ricked
When we were kids, my brother Rick and I built a city in our back yard. The yard was filled with pine trees, and every fall, when they...
R. T. Coleman
- Mar 14, 2021
- 3 min
Everything Is As It Should Be
The Tao that can be told Is not the eternal Tao. The name that can be named Is not the eternal Name. The unnamable is the eternally real....
R. T. Coleman
- Dec 31, 2020
- 3 min
Things Fall Apart
Purple hull peas and ham hock warm in the slow cooker as the sweet scent of fresh-baked banana bread wafts through my tiny home. Sleeping...
R. T. Coleman
- Mar 29, 2020
- 3 min
My Quarantine Birthday
I’ve started and stopped this blog more times than I can count this week. No matter what I’ve written, it's seemed silly, to be honest....
R. T. Coleman
- Mar 21, 2020
- 4 min
Love in the Time of COVID-19
“[T]hink of love as a state of grace: not the means to anything but the alpha and omega, an end in itself.” ― Gabriel García Márquez,...
R. T. Coleman
- Mar 9, 2020
- 3 min
Me? An Angry Woman? Hell Yes.
There isn’t much more I can say about the unsatisfactory outcome of the Democratic primary, other than to note that I’m certainly not...
R. T. Coleman
- Feb 29, 2020
- 5 min
Gen X, Our Time Is, Like, Totally Now
At the beginning of this year, CNN aired a segment about the clash between the Boomer and Millennial generations. During that segment,...
R. T. Coleman
- Oct 19, 2019
- 1 min
Autumn At Last
Cool days. Cooler nights. A time for gratitude for the simple things in life. For pansies. For former students who still remember their...
R. T. Coleman
- Sep 15, 2019
- 4 min
Puppy Update
It’s been more than a month since we lost Poe and gained a posse. Time for an update. We’ve memorialized the best boy with a shrine of...
R. T. Coleman
- Aug 31, 2019
- 5 min
Book Review: Imperial Radch Trilogy
I just finished reading Ann Leckie’s Imperial Radch series: Ancillary Justice, Ancillary Sword, and Ancillary Mercy. I have some...
R. T. Coleman
- Aug 24, 2019
- 4 min
Body Love
About two years ago, I made a serious commitment to yoga as a way to become better friends with my body. We haven't been getting along...
R. T. Coleman
- Aug 17, 2019
- 6 min
What I Did on My Summer Vacation
“You only grow by coming to the end of something and by beginning something else.” ― John Irving "Today was the third day of my new job,...
R. T. Coleman
- May 27, 2019
- 4 min
Godspeed, Dr. Norb
On a bright spring day almost 30 years ago, I found myself walking up the steps outside McAlister Hall on the University of Central...
R. T. Coleman
- Mar 24, 2019
- 3 min
Writer's Blues
I’ve been struggling lately. I’ve sat here on my sofa most of the day today, staring at an immense amount of white space, re-reading what...
R. T. Coleman
- Jan 26, 2019
- 1 min
Becoming Poe
I'm slowly but surely getting back into writing after a long hiatus. Writers are constantly complaining about procrastinating and how...
R. T. Coleman
- Jan 12, 2019
- 1 min
Book Review: A Ladder to the Sky
What a great read! Following the deadly machinations of aspiring but ultimately unimaginative writer Maurice Swift, Boyne's book shows us...
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