Posted in Daily Life, Personal Insights, tagged abnormal, alone, anger, behavior, brain, Bridgeville, church, dangerous, death, decision, depressed, depression, disbelief, disturbing, emotion, frustration, George Sodini, God, gym, hell, homicidal, homicide, hope, hopeless, impulse, Institute of Psychiatry, irritation, joyless, killing, King's College, London, loneliness, lost, love, melancholy, misogynist, misogyny, murder, negative, out-of-control, pastor, Pennsylvania, personal, Pittsburgh, Plato, postive, psychopath, psychopathic, psychosis, psychotic, relationship, resent, sarcasm, self-defeat, shooting, spite, suicidal, suicide, unstable, violence, women on August 11, 2009 | 2 Comments »
I am going away on business for a few weeks but wanted to post before I left. Now then, this is still a fresh and highly contentious subject so please navigate away from this page after the following paragraph if it is too sensitive a subject for you. My thoughts are often … [...]
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Posted in Daily Life, General Mischief, Personal Insights, tagged Poetry, work, hope, haiku, school, friend, audacity, writing, write, human, desert, white, summer, novel, publish, encourage, young, novella, college, short story, graduation, paper, words, journal, rejection, thick skin, career, urge, miserable, outlet, recognize, compulsion, attempt, experience, horror, writer's block, broken, stutter, vowel, consonant, sentence, page, thought, image, scalpel, inspiration, evening, computer, file, exhilerating, shower, slow, effort, blank, quality, quantity, practice, creative, brain, sickly, shallow, block on July 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
At a young age I was bitten by the writing bug. I clearly remember writing poetry at the age of nine (none if it good, of course) and it’s only gotten worse ever since. In high school I wrote (bad) poetry and knocked out rough drafts of two (bad) novellas. In college [...]
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Posted in Daily Life, General Mischief, Personal Insights, tagged love, hope, heart, friendship, criminal, justice, faith, ideal, temptation, armor, Xena, warrior, princess, Hercules, Legendary, Journeys, Star Trek, leather, nerd, trekkie, trekker, Dungeons & Dragons, D&D, Kirk, Spock, re-run, Next Generation, Spiderman, cartoon, children, hero, shortcoming, flaw, goodness, morality, compromise, temper, punishment, danger, battle, redemption, encourage, sacrifice, Iolaus, Gabrielle, relationship, skyscraper, imperfect, custom, consequence, choice, Superman, Mighty Mouse, Batman, Robin on July 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I’m going to come right out and admit that I was an avid fan of Xena: Warrior Princess and Hercules: The Legendary Journeys. (I won’t feel too bad if you’ve never heard of them; it’s been roughly a decade and a half since they first appeared on our small TV screen late [...]
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Posted in Daily Life, Personal Insights, Readings, tagged love, hope, treasure, death, change, accident, book, author, story, review, record, serious, suspicious, child, S E Hinton, young adult, genre, reading, classroom, required, The Outsiders, Tex, Rumble Fish, That Was Then This Is Now, Taming the Star Runner, Hawke's Harbor, wary, comeback, novel, publish, temptation, bargain, bookstore, gorgeous, touching, favorites, vampire, supernatural, plot, 1970, 1980, surprise, disappoint, mistake, bin, minority, consumer, Constant Reader, personal, coma, doctors, recovery, stranger, chance, betrayal, voice, rating, striking, moving, character, advice, beautiful, wrenching on May 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Before I leave yet again, on yet another trip to last at least two weeks, I thought I would share some thoughts on the most recent addition to my reading materials.
Very few people haven’t heard of S. E. Hinton, a young adult genre author who makes the required reading list in most if not all [...]
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Posted in Meme, Personal Insights, tagged hope, Meme on May 31, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I’ve been tagged by Lofter of Life At the Foot of the Stairs to participate in a meme.
The rules:
1. On your blog, post the Rules and 10 things you have HOPE for in your life.
2. LINK Tag 5 people (we want hope to spread to people!) and LINK the person who tagged you.
3. Comment/Notify the 5 [...]
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I am a romantic, totally and hopelessly. I admit it. If there existed meetings of Hopeless Romantics Anonymous, I’d probably go, because though I know I am one, I often think I’d be better off cured, on the wagon, climbing those twelve steps to “recovery.” Is there a patch, I wonder? But then I think the cure [...]
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