My relationship to music
If heard properly, you can feel it resonate in your molecules, you can feel it vibrate in your vitreous.
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23 Months to retirement, but who's counting anyways? (oh shit, I am 🤔🤢)
"I'm not okay (I Promise): Gerard Way, MCR, 2004 "But I will be (I guarantee it)": Kenny, just now
Our Shared War
I was introduced to a non-profit organization called “Operation Song” by my father whom recently had an interaction with one of their...
AJ took the kids and left
AJ took the kids and left To Alabama... She left last night on a red eye to Dallas...
15 years and counting
Roughly 24 years ago a confident, self assured girl met an emotionally stunted boy she was sure she would spend her life with. He was...
The oddity of passage of time (distorted viewpoints, fallacies of memory and strained relationships)
Something about the often overpowering white noise of our chaotic and high tempo life never really facilitated us getting to know each other
18 Years (Reflection time/How the hell did I get here?)
I started off today in a very 'Murica fashion. I woke up at 4:30 and went to shoot some guns as the sun came up (because, you know,...
A few more thoughts on being happy (4 ideas to get you through tough times)
Speaking Imposter Syndrome out loud sounds like the dumbest concept on the planet. Who would honestly treat themselves in such a manner?
Change of Mission (two short years to a monumental life change)
I assume by now that most people who follow this blog either know for a fact or have at least generally intuited that I am a uniformed...
Remembering yourself
Adulthood is weird. Or maybe I've made it weird for myself because, in order to compete in my chosen career field, I've had to compromise...
The death of humility
When did we, as individuals, as a society, a world as a whole, lose our spirit of curiosity about each other and the world? At what point...
Hiking the MoanaLua Valley trail to the Ha'Iku Stairs
A couple of days ago AJ and I were invited by some friends to hike the MoanaLua Valley trail to the Radio Array at the top of the Ha'Iku...
Reflection (new flash fiction)
As he hauled down a nondescript roadway carving its way through the poorly lit country side, Jake was giving in to the feeling of...
Unplugging (again 😬)
Warning, I'm sure this road ahead will be fraught with deep cliche potholes and dangerous, curvy tired social adage turns but I feel I...
Priorities (or, as Scott Stapp once crooned: What's this life for?)
How do you care for yourself when the balance of your life goes out of whack? I went to White Plains Beach this morning to watch a friend...
Self-love: not a concept just for hippies
Would you guys like to hear something weird? something kind of frustrating to all involved? First a little backstory as to how I ended up...
Veterans Day 2020
I'm not normally one for congratulations and celebration. Honestly it all feels a bit forced to me most times. Writing that out, it...
Getting to Know Your Pain
If you're tired of reading about PTSD, please keep scrolling. I apologize for the repetitive posts right now but today has been kind of...
Reflection
We are so blessed to be alive and on this planet, this uncomprehendably beautiful blue ball on which we are uncontrollably spinning...
Panic
Always locked in a state of hyper-vigilance, he was jolted awake from a restless sleep by a soul shattering scream. He rocketed his body...