R.L. Kramer

Well that was a day one of setting up a site.

Day ones will always be “day ones.”

They will always be looked back on.

Day one.

I remember the first day of my cross country bike trip.
I remember the day I got married. Day one of my marriage.
The day my son was born. Day one of fatherhood.
My grandfathers funeral. Day one of life without him.

Graduations

Day one.

A new thing.

Shaky first steps.

I am at times a thin, gangling, plucked, wet, chicken when it comes to describing the regal hen in my heart. I’ve flown the coop allowing myself to exit the mind and peck my way onto the page. This first attempt should go poorly enough, but not so much that I scurry home, forever thinking that since I “tried,” and it was no fun and I didn’t receive the awards I had imagined, while fantasizing about an award winning website, then there’s no use and I should trash the thing and get a job flipping burgers already. (Run-on)

Remember that drive, that fantasy to carry forward. This is everything you were once asking for. You wanted all of this and now that you have it, it feels like a suit made of weighted blankets. And it is not making you less anxious. It took me 6 hours to put this site together. I want to begin with the birth of a habit, nothing more. This blog post may as well have begun with “Lorem ipsum.” But I will return to the formed habit with something a little more useful.

Tea is mostly water. It’s everything else that makes it interesting. It’s just that the water has been intimately touched with another thing in a heated space.

So begins the blog that heats itself against your mind like mint in a kettle. All here to create a path to bring folks the healing power of narrative non-fiction that is “Hocus Focus: Coming of Age with ADD and its medicines.” A life changing piece of literature. It changed my life when I wrote it. This site is all here to point to that. It’s coming soon.

Like herbs in the water, words steep in our minds.