I'm hunched over piles of cardboard boxes. Sifting through books with wilted pages and dusted covers. Hard to believe I've read every single one of these books. I always hated the library. I liked to keep the books I've read as souvenirs. As if the more books I read the better a person I would be. In my juvenile mind at some point I would show ( Read more... )

Every once in a great while, that is, when I am actually out late enough, which is rare, I get a glimpse of the wild world that sleeps in the shadows of the forest during daylight. The creatures that come out only at night; The deer, the bear, the raccoon, and exclusive to my neighborhood, the three legged fox. How long he's been without one of his ( Read more... )

Having commuted in the snow recently here are some tips for the rest of the world, because they seem to be having trouble:

1. Turn on your head lights. I know that it's easier to drive by the illumination of the street lamps rather than your head lights gleaming into the snow coming at your car, but it makes it very difficult for the rest of us to ( Read more... )

Change is good. Some people hate it, and in general it's easy to get comfortable with a routine. Habits are hard to break. Sometimes your life gets shaken up. You wake up in a place you never even knew existed, meeting people and interacting with lives that you couldn't even imagine, and life seems so surreal. Your perspectives on things are ( Read more... )

This weekend was a lesson in perceptions. It's entertaining to see the reactions of those who's sense of reality has been shaken a bit, when someone doesn't give them the response they are used to getting. I don't know what it is about being provocative that I enjoy so much. I feel like I've learned a lot through life by being challenged, maybe I'm ( Read more... )

I’m going to cut to the chase right now: This is about dropping knowledge on people who think they have what it takes to be a personal fitness trainer, or are in any way qualified, when they’re not.

As someone who has spent a lot of time inside of a gym I’ve always seen the admiration in new member’s eyes when they see that guy or gal that is ( Read more... )

Writing. What a beautiful thing. Why I don’t do it more often is beyond me. Why doesn’t everyone write? I understand not everyone is “good” at it, but that doesn’t mean they can’t reap the benefits of expressing themselves. For me it’s a playful game carefully crafting words together to make people’s hearts beat just a little faster, to make their ( Read more... )

Having grown up with a father who is a motorcycle fanatic, attending Laconia bike week festivities has been along time tradition for me. It's interesting to think about how it's changed for me over the years. Naturally the people watching at Weirs beach has always been a fun part of it, but it was always about going to the races. Since the AMA ( Read more... )

Here is a list of albums released in 2010 that I have acquired
Green= Highly recommended
Purple=It Sucks
Red=I Haven't listened to it yet

1. Act As One- No Looking Back (Punk)
2. Aeon- Path of Fire (metal)
3. Alcest- Ecailles De Lune (Black metal)
4. Alesana- The Emptiness (metalcore)
5. AM Conspiracy- Am Conspiracy (Hard-rock)
6. Anarbor- The Words You Don ( Read more... )

The wood of the dock was hard against her back. After too many nights crying herself to sleep in a plush bed, the unforgiving planks were a welcomed change. It didn't really matter where she slept tonight anyway. She was finally falling asleep next to him again. It had only been three weeks, but it had been three weeks of staring into the blank ( Read more... )