I was hoping to post something flippant and silly today, since Sen. Elizabeth “Chief Spreading Bull” Warren did such a hilariously awesome job of stepping on her own rake, but as usual, such plans gang agley, as they are aft wont to do.

That is because yesterday our friend Adam Piggott, the Gentleman Adventurer from the Land Down Under (which I suspect is a song that he actually really hates), broke the news that his for-now-ex-wife had packed up and left him.

To quote a certain ex-Army Lieutenant Colonel, “this sucks major moose c*ck” – which were the exact words used when I posted up a long screed about the difficulties that I endured (and am still enduring) earlier this year.

Adam himself wrote in to express support and offer words of advice and encouragement when I wrote about my problems, and I have always appreciated and respected that fact very much.

So I am here to return the favour, in whatever manner that I can.

If you are not yet familiar with Adam Piggott’s work, I highly recommend his two books. I read the first one back in early 2016 and thought it to be really quite an excellent “coming-of-age” tale. The second one was different in tone and showed a more mature, if somewhat battered and slightly world-weary, man who had endured some serious hard knocks and had learned to roll with some of the punches.

I gather that before this latest beat-down took place in his life, Adam was working on his third book. It would appear that perhaps those plans may have to be put on hold for a while – the ending of a ten-year relationship tends to have that effect.

Whatever the circumstances, though, the fact is that one of our best has experienced a very severe setback. The least that we can do is support him through his difficulties.

If you have not already purchased one of Adam’s books, I highly recommend doing so via Amazon or his own website. As anyone who is familiar with his writing can attest, he has real skill and knows how to tell a good story.

And if you have not already checked out his “28 Traits of the Modern Man” – they are well worth a look. There is a lot of good advice to be found in them to help immature and foolish boys grow into mature and serious men.

I leave the last words here to Adam himself, who pointed out in his post about the end (for now) of his marriage:

None of us are immune to the variances and randomness of the world. And the collapse of the societal structure underpinning marriage and the family unit has made men’s positions simply untenable in this respect. We are all, each and every one of us, on borrowed time.

Amen, my friend.