Today, I shared this story that Julie (and some of my other friends) posted on Facebook. Here’s what I said, for the odd reader who isn’t my FB friend but is interested in what I[…]
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Day 155: You Don't Know What You Can Do Until…
This is a story I don’t share all that often. I have mentioned here, not all that overtly because I still don’t like the stigma of it following me, but I have mentioned here that[…]
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Day 154: The 5 People you Meet on the Internet
The last few days I’ve been sharing little bits and pieces of memories. I sort of like the memoir genre, so I’m going to toss up another little something-something here. I mentioned in my last[…]
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Day 153: "Those people aren't your friends"
I love my mother. Deeply. She’s the person who has been pretty much the only support structure that was constant in my life, and before Julie she was really the only person, at the end[…]
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Day 152: This one night at band camp
Okay, it wasn’t band camp. It was Peer Helper Camp. FYI, Peer Helpers, while it was interesting to do, was a terrible, terrible idea. Letting kids think they could offer talk therapy to other kids[…]
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Day 151: Even in his youth
I made a post a while back about an old friend named Rod. I was thinking today about another friend that I lost track of in an interesting way. This one’s name was Will. Let[…]
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Day 150: you can live through anything if Magic made it
When I was younger– so much younger– my mother briefly re-married and I had a stepfather. He was, among other things, the son of an alcoholic and followed through on the family legacy in that[…]
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Day 149: Wow… almost 150. What's half of 365?
I’ve been thinking about capitalism lately. I’m in what I call “the lean months”– June and July suck when you’re on a 9 month pay cycle, so I’ve got my “will academic for food” shingle[…]
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Day 148: I've been thinking about this one for a while
As I’m sure most of you know, because no one who would ever read my blog also lives in a vacuum, last week a congressman was shot and severely wounded (and others were wounded) during[…]
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Day 147: Who wants to walk with Elias?
Today is my final “drawing a card from the WWE Tarot that Julie got for me” post. Today’s card is The Hermit. Here’s what my research tells me the Hermit means, via Kasamba.com Whenever you[…]
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