My first semester at college I arrived in pretty bad shape. I was a big kid, and already at the age of 18 I had been through several yo-yo periods of weight loss and gain. I wrestled for 3 years in high school and each wrestling season I lost a ton of weight and got into [...]
The hydration realization
You can’t drink the Kool-Aid and then wonder why you are dead inside.
LeBron James made his now infamous “decision” tonight on live, prime-time television and, save for Miami, the entire world seems to have one reaction: disgust. A lot of people are throwing their disgust on James, on his “loyalty” to his hometown Cleveland, on the way he acted in the past few weeks, on the way [...]
Daily writing – 07/08/2010
Today’s prompt: “Write about a gate” I must have drove up and down the block thirteen times before I realized that the address I was looking for simply didn’t exist. 504… 506…510. No 508. Again. U-Turn, and once more. 510… 506. It also took me awhile to realize that even though I could not find [...]
Daily writing – 07/07/2010
Today’s prompt: “It was his idea of a good time.” We all, at some point, had to examine our lives in the context of knowing Harrison. It didn’t matter what crowd you ran with, who your best friends were, or what you did with your time. We all knew Harrison. He had a gravity about [...]
Three questions for America
I’m no political expert, nor am I always that patriotic. I do love living in a country where you can pretty much pursue whatever interests you, and when I see documentaries on nations that live in poverty or war I do feel lucky to have been born here and given all the chances I have had [...]