I’ve mentioned a couple of times before that I have a blind spot when it comes to evil intentions, and that it always catches me off-guard when people don’t want to improve themselves. I do understand that this says something about me that isn’t entirely complimentary: I am naïve. I’ve always thought of myself as […]
7Jun25
There’s a Word For That
24May25
For the Love of Music
“Because there’s no such thing as rock stars, there’s just people who play music And some of them are just like us, and some of them are dicks” – Frank Turner, Try This at Home 40 years ago today, on May 24th, 1985, Iron Maiden played at Nassau Coliseum on Long Island. Accept was the […]
1Apr25
Avoiding the Corruption Arc
“I keep having dreams… …of people wrapped up tight in the things that will kill them…” – Frank Turner, I am Disappeared I’ve been thinking of Han Qing-jao lately. Qing-jao is a character in “Xenocide” which is the fourth book of the series by Orson Scott Card that started with “Ender’s Game.” There will be […]
1Dec24
The Measure of Success
“If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster And treat those two impostors just the same;” – If, Rudyard Kipling Once upon a time a woman asked me “what kind of car would you get that would signify that you’ve made it?” I think this woman had a high-end Mustang at the time but her […]
14Aug24
I’m Great, Thanks For Asking
A quick note, To the person who told me I’d end up in jail. To the person who told me I’d always be a loser. To the person who held a shotgun to my head. To the person who told me I was irredeemably selfish. To the person who told me that I would just […]
4May23
Music Is My Friend
All I want is to keep on trucking, I think I could with a little bit of luck. Come too far to just get stuck, So I refuse to die. – Sydney Sprague I think many of my favorite songs are aspirational. They often describe people I wish I had in my life. Those times […]
12Apr12
Forever Starts Now
I used to think I was a decent guy. I didn’t know the truth of it until I found myself in a situation where I had every reason to be rotten to a person who mistreated me, I knew I wouldn’t get caught, and still chose to be a decent guy. I used to believe […]
There are dead people in my address book. I just can’t bring myself to delete them. For friends and family that are no longer here, it’s like a digital tombstone sitting on my disk drive. Here’s their last phone number; their last address; their birthday. It’s never been easy for me to let go, and […]
13Jul09
No-Go For Launch
I’ve set a personal record of a sort. I’ve gone through an entire year without visiting the east coast of Florida before, but now I’ve managed to drive over there 4 times in the space of a single month. I’ve never made so many cross-state trips in such a short timeframe. One trip was to […]
28Jun09
Paths Not Taken
I spent Saturday on the east coast of Florida. I made a quick stop in Miami’s South Beach to watch the sun come up: After that I drove up to Palm Beach County to check out all of the places there that I used to live. I’d been over to that area exactly once since […]