Into everyone's lives adversity tramples through. Sometimes there's a lull and relative quiet and then in the space of as little as a few seconds your path or your life is suddenly and irrevocably changed. Perhaps it's a good change but the reality is that it is likely not. A simple sentence can rock the absolute foundation of where you are, it is ( Read more... )

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Just deposited a small check.

Someone actually paid for something I wrote.

Wow.

Well here we are, another year -- another chapter, another click on the master wheel, another 12 pages in the flip-book animating our lives.  I wasn't going to apologize (yet again) for not writing regularly enough, but I will.  Otherwise I will feel ungrateful.  I come here daily and am always glad to see what's happening in this small enclave of ( Read more... )

My children have had the great fortune of having awesome individuals in their lives from the moment of their births.  My son went right from our arms totribanin 's, who made the most impressive nanny the neighborhood had ever seen.  But all good things end and after three years he decided to head home.  When he packed up the chuck wagon and headed west we ( Read more... )

"A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

My mother hates aging.  It's been a constant source of stress for her as long as I can remember.  Dreading every birthday, every milestone, never willing to raise her head up from what's passed to what's been achieved.  No amount of positive ( Read more... )

It's not like I don't have anything to post ... I just don't have the time or energy.  Every spare iota I have goes to my kids.  When I can be coherent I'll put something of an update together.

I'm working 70+ hour weeks right now and at the end of the day there's apathy and exhaustion.  I'm doing the best I can, but this is what I found on my ( Read more... )

It's funny how 28 days can mean anything from the advent of a life of sobriety to the decline of modern society secondary to a zombie plague.  Four weeks, one cycle of the moon, a flip of the calendar page, what is it about that technically incomplete number that is so significant.  It isn't a "full" month (unless you're February and even then not ( Read more... )

Despite some significant lows in the past year I cannot argue the positives.  I feel really good about the upcoming year -- this is my last year of my 30's and I want to approach the second half of my life full of the hopes and dreams that my path to date have managed to shape.  I want so much, not only for myself but for my family as well.

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In West Virginia of all places ...

Three cheers for Marshall University!

Slainte!