My Dream JunkYard

I was having a conversation the other day with my mother, of all people, and we were talking about the influence of gangster rap music on impressionable youth, of all topics, and my thought on the subject was that I didn’t have a problem with gangster rap itself (even though the music tends to be [...]

I Think I Broke My Wishbone

I talk a lot about choices and decisions in my blog, mainly because I struggle a lot in both areas.  I’m an extremely analytical person, who is prone to spending long hours poring over the details of a decision, stretching out potential ramifications years into the future (if I choose to do this, then my [...]

A Wonderful Monday Morning…Pre-Coffee Even

So, it’s Monday morning again, either the first day of the week or the second (depending on how you categorize that crazy anomaly Sunday), and I’ve spent the morning since six AM sitting on my parent’s veranda watching my two sisters and my mother gather around the coffee maker, each watching each drip of the black [...]

On Happiness

A dear friend of mine and I were talking in a dark bar the other night, and she (with a shot of tequila in her hand, if I’m remembering correctly) said, “you deserve to be happy.”  I, for quite possibly the first time in my life, reached into my brain for a response and couldn’t [...]

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