Growing up in the southeastern United States, I was raised to believe a certain way and to accept many things as a given fact. My social and political belief systems were formulated within me from an early age. There were some challenging ideas along the way, but the majority of
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Reading Sucks!
I never much liked reading books or stories. As far back as I can remember, reading was something I viewed as laborious and absent any sort of enjoyment. Sure, I’d read the Sunday comics or an article in a rock magazine – if it happened to be about a band
Continue readingA Chink in the Knife
After the passing of my father a few years ago, my brother and I inherited numerous boxes of his stuff. It’s amazing what all one person can accumulate during their time on this earth; and our father had actually downsized about 10 years prior to his passing. We initially sifted
Continue readingF.O.M.O. – Fear of Missing Out
As with most all modern technology, there are positive as well as negative effects and outcomes. I remember it was not all that long ago we had the ability to drive our vehicles a couple of miles down the road without any form of electronic communication; it didn’t exist. But,
Continue readingThanksgiving: Eating Turkey or Crow
As I was taking my son, who is currently 15, back to his mother the other morning, we were talking about relatively pointless topics as we usually do on those early morning rides before work and school – both of us trying to shake off the sleep from the night
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