#alineinthesand

I was born on Open Diary. I don't just mean the Serin persona, or just the part of me that animates it, but the person I am today. I discovered OD in the middle of a massive transition in my life as I started out as an introvert thrust into a new city in my…

Being an account of our Hero through a period of definition, which is all of the periods really, but there's a few particular blips of interest on the radarFor a while there I wasn't particularly sure this place would still be standing for this entry. Then for a while things got so profoundly cra...

Being a recounting of the adventures of Serin as he places one foot in terra firma and the other in terra fortyI buried a man today. I'm 39. Over a third of that time is documented, right here. My life has changed so much, and so little. And yet I am so much a different…

Being a recounting of the adventures of Serin as he copes with the possibility that he just my be a responsible adult after all that.My name is Jack Serin, and I'm 38¾ years old. Ooh, that fraction looks good there. Adds gravitas. But not too much.Let's see, what's my biography look like today? P...

Being a measure of our Hero, having found himself and someone else, marshaling for a good fight and laughing all the wayMy name is Jack Serin.Which is an untruth, but an untruth made true enough by time and use and circumstance.I am 38 years old.Which is also an untruth, but this one is more of&h...

In which our Hero feels a modicum of satisfaction that his eyes seem to be mostly resting on the horizon ahead of him because he was getting tired of looking at his own feetMy name is Jack Serin. I'm 36 years old. And I'm closing out a year that has been pretty darned successful for…

In which our Hero finds that in his quest for his Honour that maybe Honour wasn't the pointTen years ago came a time when, it seemed like my entire life changed. Granted, at that point I still lived with my parents. But I'd just started a new job. I'd finally started to put an ended…

Being a recounting of the adventures of Jack Serin, Knight Errant and Knight Reconstituted, in which our Hero accepts that change is a given, and looks forward to learning what tomorrow will bring. Thus begins my tenth year on Open Diary, my tenth year in this identity as Jack Serin. By tradition...

Being a recounting of the adventures of Jack Serin, in which our Hero finds himself a different man from what he dreamed he'd grow up to be and now has to live with that conditionOn this date, eight years ago, I found myself compelled to stop lurking and reveal myself as a person. As my…

Being an accounting of the terrible adventures of Serin and the beauty to be found withinMy name is Jack Serin. I am 32, and I am tired. I have spent a time as the immovable object, and I have withstood the world. But in order to do it, I have had to set my feet…