There are times when I just can’t write. Like now for instance. At times like these, I just despair. I don’t have an explanation for the way I feel, just that I feel like blech. Earlier tonight, my girlfriend asked if I had a headache. “I wish I did” I said, “maybe then I’d accept [...]
When we are listening to a parent, friend, or relative bitching and complaining about the same person every day, are we really helping them? It’s easy to believe we are being a fantastic friend, daughter, brother, etc. by listening to the same complaints over and over. But in reality, we may just be enabling them [...]
If it’s not one vice, it’s another. I feel like a monk…who’s just been caught masturbating. Last week, I caught myself literally sprinting from the bathroom to my computer. Checking my email for the thousandth time that morning. “That’s it!” I told my girlfriend Chanterelle, “I’m not going to be an email addict anymore!” A [...]
Alabama raises its dropout age. Will this help students get a better education? Or just cause more problems for everyone.
President Barack Obama is redirecting federal funds from abstinence education to comprehensive sex-ed. Is this a good change? Or will it encourage more teenagers to have unprotected sex?
Expressing ideas previously withheld could help to speed up the flow.
A conversation about a nightlight that changed the way I think.
Walking feels wonderful on the knee. Oh how satisfying it is to have back my full range of motion. Walking along streets and pathways around school or home is a pure meditation. Walking from the bus stop to home gives satisfaction I can scarecely verbalize, let alone write down. Inflammation has been reduced, though traces [...]
Their Hypocricy… Almost all parents are hypocrites. If you happen to have gotten two people who are completely in touch with themselves, then you should stop reading this and spend time with them while you can. For the rest of us, hypocrisy is likely to have been a theme since you could understand words. Dad says “Don’t drink” [...]
Dear Post-Surgical Self… How does it feel to have two working knees!? I admit, that feeling is foreign to me now as I have forgotten the way it feels not to have to monitor the impact of every step. I have forgotten the feeling of the freedom to walk miles and miles with the fantastic [...]