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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This past week has been powerful… honestly more powerful that I anticipated it would be and impacted me emotionally much more than expected. With the combination of the presidential debate on Tuesday night followed by the 23rd anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks on Wednesday… there was such an overwhelming feeling of appreciation for the
Okay… lets get serious… if you live in Southern Cali or watch the news you already know… it is way too damn hot to think about anything of substance this week past the fact that it is way too damn hot. And I know us khaki suits do not deserve or ask for any sympathy
I started to write something… then I deleted it and started thinking about something else to dive into this week but here I am… back at the original starting line because I can’t stop thinking about and day dreaming about it… love. The reason that I deleted my first pass was because I started feeling
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I’m just sitting down in my room after a shower last Sunday night… winding down from the day and setting up the menu for the week ahead when one of the “homeboys” walks into the room…. “I am a 15 minute Father”… he says as he sits down in the chair opposite me. “My son
I have a little tradition on the weekends. I wake up about 30 minutes before the sun is going rise (I listen to an AM radio station before bed that tells me the weather and when the sun will rise and set the next day. I know… strange. But it always makes me think of
The score is 0 – 0. It’s almost 8:40am and has been this way for about 35 minutes now but the TV room is electric. Every seat is taken and all eyes are glued to the center TV where the Gold medal game for Woman’s soccer is unfolding. Every single time the ball approaches either
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