Ted Gresham – July 2025 Today I am torn between the desire to be political, the need to start actually riding my biography, Or the necessity of searching through the photographs that I have scanned. Politics would rule my life if I let it. It would also rip me apart. I had to quit but…
Ted Gresham – April 2026 Fuck Emotions I mean it. I don’t know what it is, getting old or what, but goddammit I have gotten soft. I have gotten emotions. And fuck that. I don’t want them. OK, go back about eleven or twelve years, when my son was fifteen. His room looked like a…
Ted Gresham – April 2026 Bad Me Today I was ugly. My wife said so. She said I was acting ugly, I was ugly to my daughter, and I was being mean. Why? Because something gripped me this morning about her going off to church with my daughter. At first, I taught her better. She…
Ted Gresham – April 2026 My Vertiginous Life What the hell does that mean? It means dizzy, woozy, giddy, light-headed. It really means I vacillate between, “what the hell is going on…” to “Duhhh.” Thinking is not what it used to be. Time is a bastard that sneaks away before I can get anything done….
Ted Gresham – April 2026 Now about this guy named Jesus Christ He’s often called “Savior” or “Messiah” or whatever. To me the non-existent “son-of-god” is a pain in the ass. Once a year a holiday comes around called Easter. All the good Christians get dooded up and go to some church. For many it’s…
OK, most people think I’ve lost my mind. It’s mostly true, too. Why do you think that happened? Life. Living. Whatever. But today I’m talking about losing something else. Today, I’m talking about something else: weight. Today I weigh 270 pounds. You may think that’s pretty heavy, and it is. But in the past month…
Have you ever noticed those big iron wheels on the sides of steam engines? They are called flywheels and they serve a purpose. They provide a steady momentum to smooth out the clanking motion of the engine itself. This morning I was watching a little video about flywheels used in old factories on YouTube. (I…
Ted Gresham – July 2025 Last night I had a ‘ta-dah’ moment. I was lying in bed and for who knows what reason I started thinking about my friends the Cooks. A family moved in down on the highway. They lived in a mobile home placed beside an auto wrecking yard. The dad managed the…
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