I was 7 years old when I learned where puppies come from. Native Americans living in the Adirondacks.   It would be several more years before I learned this isn’t technically true. I was a naïve child.

The day I got Tasha was a big day for me. For years I begged my parents for a dog. I pleaded, whined, nagged, groveled, and stopped just short of ( Read more... )

Ok, I would just like to get this out of the way first. I noticed this when I first saw the movie poster for Prince Caspian. Is it just me, or do these two look an awful lot alike?


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St. Patrick’s Day is right around the corner.  I myself am half-Irish, and so half of me considers this holiday to be very important.  To celebrate, I thought I would share with you how this Irish celebration came about.  But I soon realized that I wouldn’t be able to do it justice.  So instead, I found a real-live drunken Irishman to tell the tale ( Read more... )

Woohoo!  I'm back baby!  I haven't posted in forever, I know.  Anatomy was a great class, but it had the unfortunate side effect of nearly sucking my soul dry.  So yeah, wasn't in much of a writing mood for a while ( Read more... )

I heard some bad news recently.  One of our Behavioral Sciences lecturers was teaching us about the psychosocial development of teenagers.  He said that some of the latest studies show certain areas of brain development continue until the about the age of 25. Particularly, the areas involved in problem-solving and judgment are still maturing.  Then ( Read more... )

 
           The young woman was lost in thought.  She replayed the conversation she had with the old priestess as she performed her mindless job at the factory.  Her job, along with the other women on the assembly line, was to make weapons.  She supposed she should be thankful.  It was an honor to help the Imperial Army in this way, and, by ( Read more... )

 
The private did not dare move a muscle.  He must continue to stare intently at the violent scene unfolding in front of him.

“You will learn to respect and honor the Emperor!”

“You will learn to respect and honor me!”

“You will LEARN!”

With each fanatical cry, the commanding officer swiftly booted the ( Read more... )

With a hand that was not her hand, she gave the metal pot three quick taps with a wooden spoon.  It was the hand of a much younger woman; a hand free of disfiguring liver spots and bulging veins.  And forever would be.  Setting the spoon aside, her youthful fingers reached up to grab a set of blue, porcelain bowls.  She gently placed them on the ( Read more... )

Oh my goodness.  He updated his journal?  Yes, it’s the moment you’ve all been waiting for (don’t deny it).

Life has been…gee what’s the word…busy?  But beautiful too.  Beautifully busy.  Here’s some of the stuff I’ve been up to for the past couple of months.

Medical school.  A wise man once described this four year experience as “attempting to ( Read more... )

Dylan Conway knew he was going to die.  He had been drifting in the ocean for nearly three days.  Every piece of exposed skin was painfully sunburned.  Boils were starting to form on his neck and back.  Even moving his now magenta colored pinky finger on the yellow floor of the rubber raft was excruciating.  Not that he was moving a great deal.  He ( Read more... )