by Cooper West | Apr 22, 2015 | Modus Operandi
I have spent a lot of my life in laundromats. Basically, my parent’s house was the last place I actually had an in-house washer and dryer, which I lost after their deaths when I was in my 20s. Since then, it’s been a truism that the more basic necessities...
by Cooper West | Oct 5, 2014 | Day!job, Health, Modus Operandi
So this photo is of my on-going “To Do” notebook. I know, fairly old-fashioned to have an actual hand-written list for that, but I take visceral pleasure in crossing things off my list when they are completed. The other side of that coin is the unremitting...
by Cooper West | Feb 6, 2013 | Modus Operandi
Several years ago, I woke up one morning on a weekday and lay in bed, staring at the ceiling, and thought to myself: “I have nothing to live for.” This wasn’t a suicidal thought, if you were worried. It was more the realization that I had no purpose...