Value of Connections
“Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruits.” Proverbs 18:21 Friendship. In our culture today its definition has been warped, mangled, and covered in a...
View ArticleAre We Really Alone?
Note: please do not present this to others as your own idea. I have spent hours working on coming up with a quality formulation and would like it if you would respect my work. Social Entanglement...
View ArticleNo Man is An Island
“No man is an island...every man is a piece [of the whole]...any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for...
View ArticleAnother Test Gets an F
Tune of “Another One Bites the Dust” by Queen Verse 1 He walks sleepily into the classwith his homework still undone.Ain’t no sound but the sound of his groanAs Melton announces a test “Did you study,...
View ArticleThe finality of Death
“They’re in a better place now.”“They’re free of their pain.”“They’re with God now; you’ll see them some day.” Bull shit. They may be true statements, but the truth is deceptive and ambiguous here when...
View ArticleWriter's Block: Be true to your school
How do you feel about public versus private schooling?First question listed was submitted by ohnochastity. (Follow-up questions, if any, may have been added by LiveJournal.)View 814 AnswersIt all...
View ArticleUnderstanding Identity
How many of us truly understand who we are? How many of us can comprehend the world around us and not feel overwhelmed? How many of us actually stop and think about our relationships? Our lives?How...
View ArticleWriter's Block: Open book test
Based on the books on your bookshelf, what conclusions would people draw about you?First question listed was submitted by bouhaki. (Follow-up questions, if any, may have been added by LiveJournal.)View...
View ArticleSue's Death
It’s been three long years since Sue’s passing and yet, those years have seemingly done nothing to diminish the sense of loss, grief, and emptiness that death brings. Since then, I have attended four...
View ArticleRemember me?
Another quarter gone by, another group of friends made and another groups of friends lost. The pattern repeats ad infinitum. Every quarter I make new friends. Few, if any, still communicate with me a...
View ArticlePolitical Correctness
If there’s one thing I will never be, it’s “politically correct.” It is probably the best comedy act out there today and yet most people don’t even realize the ironic hypocrisy that is part of it. Take...
View ArticleThe Dust Shall Be Bitten
When hopes fadeDrive has slipped awayAnd no one offers aid.There is no light todayBut maybe tomorrow.Joy seems vainAnd all of life is sorrow.Light becomes a train,Rushing toward you.Frozen in...
View ArticleCurveball, meet knuckleball, your new partner.
“Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.”Albert Camus Life knows how to throw curveballs. Actually, it’s more like curveball combined with knuckleball. So I get a...
View ArticleGraduation Season
It’s graduation season again. The only three weeks out of the entire year when I’m both happy and depressed simultaneously. Even if I am graduating (I’m not this year), I’m still this way. Everyone...
View ArticleShallow acting
Though there can be many benefits that come with Asperger’s Syndrome, social competency is not one of them. I frequently refer to myself as a “walking social faux pas,” and yet, that’s only part of it....
View ArticleMission Trip 2011-Montego Bay
As many of you know, I just went on a mission trip to Montego Bay, Jamaica with my church earlier this month (July 2nd– 10th). The trip was coordinated through Next Step Ministries and we were going to...
View ArticleWe Are
We are a generation growingWe are a generation questioningWe are a generation morally lostWe are a generation ignorant of the costWe are a...
View ArticleRequiescat in pace
“A friend is a second self.” Aristotle Four years. It's been a long, tumultuous four years since Sue died. Her death caused me to do a complete and thorough examine of everything I...
View ArticleA letter from the Outside.
To those who actually care about the rejected,“All people want is someone to listen.” Hugh ElliottThank you. You understand, unlike the majority of society, that we too are humans, albeit different in...
View Article
More Pages to Explore .....