Over the past dozen or so outings to collect trash, I’ve established a few internal rules that govern what I do.

Most of this is covered in my “About” page, but we’ll pin it here for a bit since I’ve just started this blog.

At the top: Look, fundamentally, this is just a way to keep me writing. Writers gotta write. Seemed like a good idea. We’ll see.

When I decided I was going to do this, I knew two things: I wasn’t going to get this crap on my hands and I wasn’t going to hurt my back doing it.