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Come out and play
Tsk! Now, now. You ought not take anything I say (or write) seriously, not in the least. I might stomp and swear a bit, but that’s simply in the moment. The next moment, oh, all right, maybe hour or day, I will likely feel quite differently about whatever it was…
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Someone saved my life tonight
Who will it be? Who will it be? It seems like every time I hit rock bottom, when I feel like I’m crawling through life’s wretched, twisted, corroded debris, someone unknowingly grabs me from the edge. My brain has been working in overdrive again and when the mental marathon gets…
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Alone
Excellent conversation with Edison’s Black Dahlia about life, death, spiritualism, heaven, hell . . . so, yes we were talking about Avenged Sevenfold. He was nearly asleep the first time he heard the bridge in Wicked End, he tells me, and it was so intense it woke him up and…
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Stripped
The strength of the Ringbearer is failing. In his heart, Frodo begins to understand the quest will claim his life. ~ Galadriel The line had been rolling through my head for days, but it wasn’t until now that I realized what Galadriel saw was not a potential future, but rather the future. I equated “claiming his…
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Superpower
“Um, Mom, why are you singing at the sliding glass door?” DS has just come up from the basement and he’s staring at me. “You can see and hear me?” I ask. He puzzles a second and then says, yes. “I’ve been singing all day actually,” I tell him. “Singing…
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The birds
Dez, you and I played outside for a long, long time yesterday and while we were sitting in the cool shade on the porch, the robins this time — as opposed to the red headed sparrows — boldly walked and hopped around the porch, stopping every few seconds to cock…
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Silver medals
I’m sitting in the dugout looking across the field at the opposing team. The game’s over, for that matter, the season’s over and the only reason both teams are still here is because it’s time for our annual assessment and rah-rah trip to Pizza Hut. We’d tied with the Governors…
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Blather
I hadn’t heard that word in years, but now Ken uses it on occasion and I have always rather liked it and thus it seems an appropriate headline. I thought of it last night as we sat in the beer garden outside Rock Bottom for the first concert of the…
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Fantastic article on workplace bullying
I came across this article about workplace bullying on Time magazine’s Business and Money site. Before now, I’d never seen in print what many, many of us have commonly experienced throughout our careers. “When Good Things Happen to Bad People,” by Gary Belsky, nails it. “A lot of bullies are…
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Facial
Me and the boys plus DS’s girlfriend Jess at the dinner table tonight and DS asks me how my day was and I say it was pretty good and that I got a facial and DS and EBD snort and laugh and I’m not sure what tiny naive part of…
At Least They're Committed 