Last night I did something I haven’t done in years. I stepped inside a batting cage and took some healthy cuts with a bat at a local family fun place. I played a lot of baseball as a kid, either with my brother and our mutual childhood friend Matt, or during organized softball. My parents
Life is a funny thing. When I first started my journey I had no idea some of the friends I met along the way would fall to the wayside as easily as they have, yet that is the way of things. I never imagined in the moment people I spent hours with having fun would
In the middle of ninth grade I got to know a janitor at my high school. I won’t reveal his name, but for the purposes of this story I’m going to call him “Tom”. Every night after school, Tom went about his business of cleaning up after hundreds of kids who didn’t give a
I’ve spent some time comparing my current writing to my past pieces. I do so lightly because I realize it isn’t fair to what I’m writing now to look back and see where my mindset was four years ago. Yet, I still do. Fair or not, I need to know if I’m growing as an
I firmly believe patterns exist in every part of life and for that matter death. Consensual reality has brought on the theory of death in threes, and for that matter life in threes too. Last year we dealt with several public deaths, too long a list to name here. The question is, how many lives
When you build a house, or any structure, before you push aside the dirt and level the land, you have to sit down and create blueprint. The blueprint is where you pour your ideas out from the inner workings of your brain and onto paper. You’ll use paper – this part is important –
As an artist I always get the same feeling while writing a novel. It starts small but grows each time I sit down and place my fingers on the keys. “What if this has all been done before?” I watched an amazing Sci-fi show called The Expanse out of pure fear that the ideas expressed
We humans are a funny lot. We place our faith in the unseen or the random, abdicating the responsibilities set upon our lives instead taking up the reins ourselves. To be fair to us – it’s easier to do this than face the fact that our personal ups and down are largely on our own
Ever feel like you’re stuck between two positions in time and space? These two independent ideas not only conflict with one another but in some sense could be seen as antithetical to the other’s existence. A simple example of this is going to play out tomorrow morning all over the world. In a wave brought
When you dream as much as I do, reality can get a bit hazy. The problem is, as I dream and daydream, I tend to get caught up in what’s going on inside my head rather than concentrating on the immediate world around me. Now the socially acceptable thing to do would be to forget