HOLY SHIT!

These past nearly FIVE YEARS have been a learning experience for sure. In the end, I found IDQT calling me back. It said, "You have more bullshit to talk about and ramble on for paragraphs for. Come back!" (this is all said with kind of Chris Hemsworth tone but a little more ethereal. Think Galadriel meets Thor.)

A lot like gravity.

Hey Gang! I recently had the privilege of being the best man for my closest friend of nearly 15 years. I wanted to share the speech I wrote. I wrote it because it rang true about he and his wife from my point of view. When I was done with it, I wanted to share...

Campfire Tales Part 1: Chris, Ben and the Infinite Boredom

“What if this is how we die?” I remember joking but not.

I’ll Bet

Hey Gang! I was walking home not too long ago and I couldn’t help but be incredibly frustrated. I had multiple papers due in a few weeks, my house was in disarray thanks to my rambunctious puppy and I had little time to do anything but attend work, class, and sleep. I was spent. I...

The Fall

  Hey Gang! It was a warm, sunny Sunday afternoon. This came into direct opposition o the few hours that preceded when tornadoes whipped around the state leaving dozens homeless and thousands without power. I was walking in the large grassy backyard at my mother’s house. My dog ran back and forth enjoying the sun...

A Life Less Ordinary Part II: Jazz and Chuck Berry’s Ding-a-Ling

PROLOGUE Omission (n): 1.someone or something that has been left out or excluded. I have decided to omit the time period between the events of part one and part to of these blogs. I feel that it is an important precursor to say that events transpired and that said events were terribly personal. I feel...

The Day John Henry Died

 Hey Gang! What is strength?Is strength something that comes from within you? Some sort of primal trait we have hidden within us that bursts forth in times of need. Is it something summoned willingly? What is its potential? Where is it coming from? What is strength?There is this really great old story that I love. It's...

By Chance

Hey Gang! I sit at my computer and the little bar blinks in front of me. It taunts me because it knows that this is a hard one to write. It's one of those stories that I hold close to me and have for years because it was when I realized how important it is...

Little bits of crazy

Oh, Lucy! How I love her. Lucy being my mother. She is so quotable! One of my favorite ones of wisdom is "You don't want to be with someone who will stand in the rain with you. You want someone who, when you are in the rain, shares their umbrella with you." (I'll let that...

The Times They Are A Changin’

Recently my brother visited me for four days. That is what inspired me to write this blog. First, as always with my verbosity, I want to tell you about my adolescence. I was never really the cool kid in school. I was a social butterfly and the class clown but never that guy that went...