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Life in the slow lane. Sharing my thoughts, love for motorcycles, fly fishing, travel, and lessons learned through recovery.
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Hidden Homelessness and Random Bald Men
Over the years I’ve tried to force myself to be as open as possible about my experiences with mental illness and addiction. It is not...
Michael Farley
Jan 41 min read


Silencing the Critics
I have a tremendous love-hate relationship with sharing my writing. I love to write for cathartic reasons. I love the discourse some of...
Michael Farley
Dec 313 min read


Back By a Not Entirely Popular Demand
With nearly a year's hiatus, I bring you yet another unfocused rambling blog! Strap up and hold on as I take it on a meandering journey...
Michael Farley
Dec 9, 20242 min read


Best Laid Plans
With a month-long break between semesters, grand plans were laid to rebuild an engine from a 1973 Harley Davidson Ironhead. After the...
Michael Farley
Jan 20, 20242 min read


Keen Observation
The keen observer will have noticed a couple posts in my stories with a link to Substack. However, I have decided not to follow that...
Michael Farley
Jan 12, 20242 min read


Silly Season
The Christmas crowds are gathering. Downtown is a flurry of holiday panic, a crush of consumerism. I find myself inhabiting a peculiar...
Michael Farley
Dec 15, 20232 min read


Past Reflections
So. As threatened I bring to you a much-delayed post. After an incredibly fulfilling summer of riding bikes and getting back on my...
Michael Farley
Nov 12, 20232 min read


City nights
There is something endlessly appealing about the anonymity found in big cities. The ability to blend in and be unseen, to be a voyeur...
Michael Farley
Aug 13, 20231 min read


People Surprise me!
I’m continuously shocked by the amount of people that connect with me outside of the blogosphere, IRL if you will, over the topics I...
Michael Farley
Jul 31, 20231 min read


Are the dog days really over?
The term “dog days” brings to mind a sentimental scene, ripe with nostalgia. I see a rickety set of stairs coming off the back door of an...
Michael Farley
Jul 22, 20233 min read


Permanence and eternity
The thrumb of countless stones pulsating and pushing against the crescent coast. Gently softening their gagged profiles, smooth and...
Michael Farley
Jul 5, 20232 min read


summer growth
Well friends, we’ve made it. The days are growing longer, there is a hint of coconut in the air 2km out from every beach in the city and...
Michael Farley
Jun 18, 20233 min read


Mark Wahlberg (will this generate like now?)
There are periods in my life when I can feel a shift. I can feel a need to tune in and absorb what is happening around me. The universe...
Michael Farley
Jun 3, 20232 min read


Mislead Manifestation
After waking up the fourth, fifth and sixth time fully clothed, on a rubberized blue lazy-boy my shoes having been replaced with some...
Michael Farley
May 23, 20235 min read


May daze
I find May an extremely hard time to get things done, as a goal oriented person I struggle with this. The NBA playoffs are getting...
Michael Farley
May 14, 20233 min read


Augusta Days
This will surely cause a problem; the beginning of another day, which Stuart has already missed by a few hours. The thick Torontonian...
Michael Farley
Apr 16, 202310 min read


Flush with Friends, not fish.
Last patches of winter's snow slowly melt as the sun goes down behind the soaring peaks of Sutton Pass; beautiful, imposing and regal...
Michael Farley
Apr 1, 20233 min read


Marched
I’m altogether and completely Marched. Heavy, unrelenting raindrops outside my window reinforce the sentiment. Stuck inside over the...
Michael Farley
Mar 12, 20231 min read


lens of perception
Within the last nine years, my life has changed dramatically. I never would have wished for the life that I have now, frankly, I didn’t...
Michael Farley
Feb 27, 20233 min read


Desert Glitz
I try to be aware when the universe is giving me a sign, yet sometimes *read most-times I’m far too stubborn, excited and/or attached to...
Michael Farley
Feb 19, 20233 min read
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