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I’m Still Alive

In Blog on 16 July 2008 with 1 comment

I disappear from the cyberworld from time-to-time. I don’t mean it. Real-life and interests get in the way and I seem to fade away …
So what have you been doing?
Well, it’s summer. So I’ve been summering.
The sun stays up longer, so I’m outside longer. The kids are off from school, so we’re out longer.
We’re in […]

Fighting Words

In Blog on 11 July 2008 with 2 comments

Yesterday, I was almost in a fight. An honest-ta-goodness fist fight. An old-fashioned scuffle. A bare-knuckle brewhaha.
Almost, but not quite. Damn.
You see, yesterday I was playing a quick nine holes after work with a few buds - my regular, weekday foursome - when some young knuckleheads thought we’d purposefully hit into them. Two of our […]

In the Water I Am Beautiful

In Blog on 10 July 2008 with 3 comments

I’d forgotten where that came from: “In the water I am beautiful.”
Several years ago, I wrote a bit that contained the above quote. I don’t remember the bit and didn’t, until the other day, remember where the quote came from.
Citizen X from tanjents.com emails me several times per year asking if I could repost the […]

Purposefully Misled

In Blog on 9 July 2008 with no comments

Do you think George W. Bush purposefully misled to the United States Congress and its citizens when he led us to war in Iraq?
Do you think he purposefully misled us when he said that Saddam Hussein was linked to the terrorists who knocked down the World Trade Center, knocked a hole in the Pentagon, and […]

Jill Bolte Taylor

In Blog on 8 July 2008 with 2 comments

On the way home from work I stopped at BJ’s to pick up dog food, cat litter, and Band-Aids. As is my wont, I perused the big book table. Books are a big deal to me — they are the tangible experiences of our collective unconscious; they are our communication with the great minds of […]

Martin Luther King Boulevard

In Blog on 2 July 2008 with 2 comments

The only other time I thought I was going to be killed in a felonious assault, I was working for the same company: OMNI Homecare.
I was in a town not dissimilar to the aforementioned Asbury Park driving along Martin Luther King Boulevard. You remember what Chris Rock said about Martin Luther King Boulevard:
If a friend […]

Jacked!

In Blog on 30 June 2008 with 2 comments

Over the last 12 years there have only been 51 permits to build new homes in Asbury Park, New Jersey. From 1996 until 2002, there were no, ZERO, permits to build new homes.
30% of Asbury Park’s residents have incomes below the “poverty level.” The average annual household income is only one-third that of the rest […]

I’m Giving Him a 10

In Blog on 25 June 2008 with 1 comment

I’m not big on linking to videos here, but:

God’s Work

In Blog on 25 June 2008 with 3 comments

Not long ago, I assisted a nursing home nurse render care to one of her patients. Her patient was a 90-year-old woman in the later stages of Alzheimer’s Disease. I was helping the woman stand while she was being showered.
What I do, what the people I work with do, is God’s work. We are Angels. […]

Writing Crap

In Blog on 24 June 2008 with 2 comments

I spent the better part of the last hour writing a post that you’ll never read. Boring. Insipid. Long.
And it didn’t go anywhere.
I wanted to tell a story about how I stood up to the neighborhood bully. The neighborhood being the golf course; the bully being Georgie, an ex-high school athlete.
Georgie insulted me once. He […]