My Midlife Riot
Patrick ErwinTales of a fiftysomething deliquent, kicking down brick walls and sorting through the rubble.
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No apologies
2026 has been a year of moving forward and experiencing growth - as well as the lightness of letting go, of refusing to carry the emotional weight of how others react to my choices and my words.
This is relatively new for me (and at 57, i...
The hug that never happened
Earlier this year, I discovered the gorgeous art of Anthony Hurd.
All of his work is beautiful and moving - some almost revolutionary in their embrace of queer joy - but one piece in particular has lived rent-free in my head since I first...
Pretty little lies
I’ve got a confession to make: I have a long history of being a liar.
Oh, sure. Fiction writers invent lies and weave them together, and most writers are shameless magpies. We all swoop down, pick up the shiny bits we see all around us, a...
In our own voices
I’ve tried not to post too much about my novel in progress here.
Of course, I don’t want to jinx the project or give away too much information about it. It’s been hard but rewarding work; I’d hoped to be half done with the first draft by...
When you're strange
Hi, my name is Patrick. And I’m strange.
Or whatever word you’d like to see in its place: eccentric, odd, curious.
I run counter to the mainstream. Salmon swimming upstream and all that.
If my life had been an Edward Gorey book or som...
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Writer, blogger, general bricoleur. Writing a novel. Also on Instagram at @patricksmidliferiot
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