I decided to go for a run tonight and when I got to my usual starting place, my mind froze for an instant! When it thawed out, I decided that I would not run my usual route and instead go for something completely free of structure and limits ( Read more... )

Today, on one of my many days off this week, I have been given a chance to be a saint in my mom's eyes. I will be escorting my grandparents to the hospital for my grandpa's monthly check-up. Now this may not sound like a noble act but you don't know what it is like to hang with my grandparents. Scratch that. Hanging would presume we were spending ( Read more... )

I have woken up this morning with a pain in my neck and the smell of rain creeping through the jealousies. I have to sit on the couch with a pillow behind my back to keep my posture tall. So many many things have gone on in my mind recently ( Read more... )

I just took a full-time position at the Foundation doing the Overnight awake shift aka the graveyard shift. I take the 7pm bus to another bus stop and take that bus to a road. The road leads into the black mountains of the night, that are shaded that yellow streetlight color in areas that make the trek up the road look like an alien sidewalk into ( Read more... )

I've been living in Hawaii for 9 months now and I'm already starting to feel like a change is in order. When we think of change, we think of all the things that are working and are not working in our lives and decide whether we want to remain comfortable and expect the expected or go on a dive and discover the areas we've only imagined ( Read more... )

Mark my words: I will be published before 2011

-Rock

I was looking through my old journal entries for the last five years and wondered what I did for New Years every year. Last year, I was at work with Cesar, in 2006 going into 2007 I was with my Mom and Dad, in 2005 going into 2006 I was with Kalani and Shane at Jackie's apartment. The only hole I had to fill was the year before that. I couldn't ( Read more... )

Today was the first day I felt a real shiver go down my neck when the thought of my mother's health came across it. She hasn't been sleeping regularly and all she does now is complain and hate how her Mom and Dad and Sister and Brother lives. When Aunty Cindy came by with her kids, over the laughter of the children playing on the trampoline I heard ( Read more... )

I haven't been in Hawaii long, but I'm already starting to make some real professional connections. My cousin is really helping me out by introducing me to his more influential friends and really putting my name out there. For the record, he's probably the most inspirational speaker I've ever seen. We had dinner last night and he was just telling ( Read more... )

Today, Mom and Dad left for Hawaii. They have no plans on returning to California anytime soon and it was Mom's last good bye to Shane ( Read more... )