I am about to come to a major crossroad in my life. A cosmic one if you will. You are too. We are all about to come to a part of our life where we have to make a decision, a big one. No longer are we going to sit back and hit cruise control, … More Crossroads
I will never apologize for the love I have for the musical stylings of John Mayer. I may not always agree with the man, but as far as musicians and songwriters go, he is one of this generation’s greatest and you can not argue with that. I remember where I was the first time I … More Walt Grace
Let’s all just admit right now that we want to be a pirate. Powerful, mysterious, daring and yes, cool. We all wanted to be a pirate at one time in our lives, and now more than ever, we need to call on our inner Black Beard to help guide us through the treacherous waters of … More 5 simple steps to becoming a Pirate.
It wasn’t supposed to end this way. Not this time. Not after all the other setbacks and unlucky breaks. His senior year was supposed to be different. This was supposed to be the time the cowboy rides out into the sunset, onto the next adventure, the next rodeo. He wasn’t supposed to deal with disappointment … More The Graduate*
The room is still, but the air is filled with music. Jazz to be exact. The kind of real music that makes a soul wander and move like a firefly in the dark night sky. Jazz is movement. It isn’t held to any particular laws of physics. It’s free. Free to roam in my house … More Jazz
The time we have here on Earth is not measured in minutes. Sure we all carry watches to measure a finite amount of something, but what we are measuring with our watch or our clock isn’t time, it’s distance. We tend to measure the distance between the moment we are born to the time we … More Time
The morning my dad passed away, he got up to go to the bathroom and fell, lodging himself between the wall and the bathroom door. My mom couldn’t pry the door open and get to him because of his size. She had to call my cousins for help. There was panic and desperation. I was … More Guilt
We are in trying times people. Whether it is a virus, a zombie, werewolves, rabid squirrels, or just the people upset about the cancelling of Grey’s Anatomy…people are claiming the end of times is near. We must take precaution and do our best to prepare for this unprecedented occasion and I have compiled a small … More An Idiot's Guide to the Apocalypse
Are you doing the best you can right now with all that is going on around you? Think about that one for a second. Are you pulling your hair out and struggling to find another art project for your kids to do because you don’t want them to watch television all day? Yet now you … More Judging
Life is not fair. Isn’t that what we tell our children when they don’t get what they want, and we want to teach them a lesson? Yet, here we are in the middle of an unprecedented global epidemic talking about fairness. We are talking about how unfair it is that professional sports have been cancelled, … More Fair
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