Trees & Water
I miss them. I live in Los Angeles. As much as its residents try to ignore it, Los Angeles is actually part of the desert. This…
Read articleAutobiography Of Goldfish Volume 2
Daily Post prompt: If you could read a book containing all that has happened and will ever happen in your life, would you? If you choose…
Read articleThe Fairness Sham
Life is not fair. Like at all. Not in any way. Human justice is lacking and there is no such thing as universal justice, karma or…
Read articleGet Off My Lawn
Is there anything you feel too old to do anymore? Gah. Everything. I feel too old to get out of bed most days. Getting old sucks.…
Read articleHeavy
I’ve been feeling heavy lately. I don’t mean heavy as in “does the entire pumpkin pie I just ate make my ass look fat?” I mean…
Read articleIf I Only Had 10 Years to Live
If you only had ten more years to live, would you do anything differently? I very well might only have ten more years to live or…
Read articleYounger/Older
Do you feel younger or older than you really are? Interesting question. I feel both and neither. I have packed more than the required life experience…
Read articleFive-Minute Conversation
If you could go back in time and have a 5 minute conversation with yourself ten years ago, what would you say? Ten years ago, I…
Read articleThe Hard Way
Is there any other way to really learn a lesson besides learning it the hard way? Humans aren’t inclined to listen to advice until it becomes…
Read articleLegacy
What do you want to be remembered for? I’ve already discussed the concept of leaving a legacy in the post A Fight Club Moment, but I…
Read articleWhat My Home Says About Me
My home says that it’s not my home. My home says that I live with a boy who, admittedly, has no sense of personal style. He…
Read articleReason Is Not To Blame
Do you believe everything happens for a reason? Ugh. This is a tough one that forces me to reveal much about myself. Let’s just say, from…
Read articleDebilitating Pessimism
I’m a cup is half empty, everything sucks, negative almost to the point of disability kind of person. I’m so negative that, sometimes, it’s hard to…
Read articleIf I Could Change One Thing
Ah, the old ‘what if’ game. I’ve played this game a thousand times and I always come up with the same answer: I would change nothing.…
Read articleRegretsy
I’m not a big fan of regret. I don’t have a regret jersey or a big regret foam finger. I don’t discuss regret in sports bars,…
Read articleLighten up, Francis.
What would you say to your 16-year-old self, and why? It’s another ‘write something you’ve already written’ Plinky prompt. I’ve already had this conversation in Doing…
Read articleOn Being Handicapped
Last week, I was walking around on two feet, per usual, and all of a sudden, the ground rose up to greet me. I found myself…
Read articleThe Best Day Of Your Life
A friend of mine once asked, actually, he insisted, that I tell him what the best day of my life was. This happened at a party…
Read articleDeath and Taxes
I have to figure out who my oldest friend is now, since my oldest friend died. She went in for a simple office-visit procedure – an…
Read articleDoing Research For An Autobiography
I’m writing an autobiography as a way to get me writing again since I haven’t done nearly enough of that lately. I find that digging around…
Read articleSeeing Stars
You know what I love? Stars. I don’t mean the common, five-pointed shape or the latest, greatest celebrities. I’m talking about the amorphous plasma balls radiating…
Read articleA Fight Club Moment
I was watching an old interview with Robert Mitchum the other day. After thinking that he was still hot even in his fifties, it hit me…
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