“Hi Daddy! Hang on… Hang on…” (I hear rustling and a moment of silence) “You still there?” “Yeah buddy… I’m here.” “Okay… okay… hang on Daddy just hang on one second…” I hear my oldest say as he seems to be looking for something. “Okay. I’m back. I just needed to set up my talking […]
I was spinning laps around the track this past Wednesday talking to one of the “homeboys” in here… well… let me clarify. I was spinning laps around the track getting ‘talked at’ by one of the “homeboys” this past Wednesday. He was going on and on about how he was getting out soon and the
I will not get too deep into the weeds on the election or my feelings regarding the outcome of said election because that is not the protagonist in the movie this week. But what I will say is that the outcome put a massive mirror up to the American people… to our values… to our
I would not consider myself a “handy” man. Well lets not single me out… no one would consider me a handy – man. I was the guy would had absolute zero shame in “calling a guy” as opposed to figuring out how to handle said home project with these paws of mine. But… enter this
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There are “coincidences” that take place in our lives that simply cannot be explained through the logical lens that we view this world. Some may say that these events are an act of a higher power… some may say that it is a loved one that moved on from this life and is now “speaking”
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Here’s another little something for the Dads out there… especially the ones that are being kept up at night stressing about how in the hell they are going to be a ’15 minute Father’ for the foreseeable future. Just a bit of insight from the inside… it’s going to be okay Dad… I look down
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It’s starting again… I hear bath water and feel the heat from the steam coming from the faucet. I hear him laughing behind me… he’s right outside the door. There he is… he runs in and out of his room with only a diaper half strapped to his body. He has the biggest smile on
I don’t know if it would be considered confirmation bias or possibly some form of the ‘recent-cy effect’ but there have been numerous occasions in here where I have a conversation with someone and then at some point in the near future… I am reading an article or a book and ‘BAM’… there it is.
Picture a mason jar. The thick glass… the screw on lid with the aluminum top that pops on just under the lid. Now imagine a small pile of sand… a handful of small rocks… and 3 larger rocks sitting next to the mason jar. If you opened the jar and poured the sand in first…
To tell ‘the story’… I must tell the back story… so this is that… I can feel them shaking. I look down at my hands thinking maybe if I look at them they will stop. My wrists are tightly secured by the steel handcuffs that are chained to my waist which are chained to the
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