A Reflection From A Sissy
We live in a world of instant gratification, the world of the quick fix.
Rachael Taylor
Last week my face hurt like a son-of-a-motherless-goat. It wrecked me with a level of pain that I'm certain I have never experienced before in my life. If I were Jack Bauer I would have totally cracked under the ... << MORE >>
Abandoned Words Have Lit Signal Fire.
I have things I want to write.
I have stories to tell.
I know the words I want to use.
I just haven't used them yet.
I've left these words unwritten.
These unwritten words are just sitting right below me waiting for me to save them up from the barren island I've ... << MORE >>
No Matter What
Five years ago I wrote the following piece while blogging on MySpace. Yikes..MySpace....I'm still on some serious antibiotics because of that place.
Anyway, this is what I wrote for World Autism Awareness Day in 2008. I wrote it from a very scared and hurt place. It is all just as relevant today as it was back then.
"No Matter What"
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The 4th Generation Itch
"We can't choose our family." is one of those cliched phrases that we all say to each other at cocktail parties where we all stand around and try and prove that our bloodline is the bat-shit craziest of them all.
As a contrarian who is hell bent on trying to argue against any widely held opinion I'm always at a loss when it comes to finding a counter to this claim, because it's the truth. We can't ... << MORE >>
Quiting The Mob
There is safety in numbers only as long as you are on the right side of them.
It's easier to be in the heart of a mob than to be on the outside of it.
Being outside of the majority takes bravery and a self-confidence that I often fail to possess.
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Into The Stream (part three)
Part One
Part Two
My wife said to me that I was going to be 40 soon!??!!
What the what?
How dare she do something so cruel!!
Where does she get the nerve to say that out loud!!!!!
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Into The Stream (part two)
Part One can be found here: Into The Stream (part one)
So this is what road kill feels like....
Laying on your back in the middle of the street can cause you to rethink everything. As I could feel my spinal fluid leak out of my earholes I started ... << MORE >>
Into The Stream (part one)
Part One of Two
EXT - Night. Residential Sidewalk Two Blocks Away From JOHN's Townhome.
JOHN is walking his dog down an icy sidewalk as a bright full moon begins to loom over the
horizon. It is very cold outside and JOHN is certainly not dressed for the weather. He is
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Walking on frozen water takes a lot of faith.
Since my heart is being quickly overrun by bacon grease I decided a few weeks ago to start jogging. It is a brutal experience for me, as I have the fitness level of a bag of Funyons. Every
morning I throw myself out of bed in the darkness and put on warm clothes to start my run around the lake near our new home. While shuffling around the path I have seem the same group of
people every morning who are part of the same daily ritual. They all gallop ...
To hell with their "Hard Truth"
A couple days ago I was having a fantastic breakfast with a couple friends. We got into a discussion of if there was a time in my life where I let somebody's criticism of me affect who I was. I couldn't come up with a great example at the time. With a little reflection I was able to see the gorilla that was riding the elephant in my life. A lot of my self-doubt and fears in my life stem from the power of somebody's words have ...
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